Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitzis a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth22 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.
If we have to do some things that people say -- you know, 'you're just scraping over the past, you're giving us all this shocking stuff, why should our children have to see it on television?' Let me tell you that the main consideration on the other side in our minds is saving the lives of American men and women who are on the line,
If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.
If these amendments become law, it will harm the well-being of Chad's poorest and most vulnerable citizens and represent a material breach of the original agreement.
Certainly I am also here to learn about the problems of the country today and especially the problems of very severe poverty.
Cautiously optimistic would be a good phrase, ... I hope that we can sustain the momentum.
Because thousands of brave men and women from 22 nations put their lives on the line, the face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better,
significantly complicate our ability to ensure availability of critical military GPS services in a time of crisis, and at the same time assure that adversary forces are denied similar capabilities.
The face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better.
We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,
I think Indian officials that I talk to aren't satisfied with the seven per cent or so that they're doing, but I must say that is impressive already, and I think they are making every effort to do more.
Part of the challenge is that we were moving from an era when there were very substantial subsidies in energy prices. Some kind of adjustment is necessary.
Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.