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
Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
We believe there are adjustments and realignments and enhancements that both of us can make to our forces that would give us a stronger deterrent posture -- not that it's weak now,
We have agreement on more aid, we have consensus on debt relief -- now let's complete the picture and deliver a true development round on trade.
We're unified as an administration on this, ... We're unified within the Defense Department. We all understand the enormous value of expanding this coalition.
The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.