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
We're still considering what to do with him. There's no decision yet.
We are going from an era where nobody wanted to say no to anything, to an era when people have to be encouraged that if there are serious problems, they bring them forward, and saying no is a good thing.
Trade barriers to the developing countries, particularly in the area of agriculture, are really shocking,
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.
The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared,
We are committed to getting it done and we expect real progress at these meetings,
We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.
Our focus right now is in getting rid of this regime in Baghdad.
Above and beyond the humanitarian considerations -- which would be compelling enough -- we have an enormous interest in seeing this succeed,
As large as these costs are, they are still small compared to just the economic price that the attacks of September 11th inflicted, to say nothing of the terrible loss of human life, ... And even those costs are small in comparison to what future, more terrible terrorist attacks could inflict.
As impressive as that election was, Iraq still faces a difficult road ahead,
The mission of the World Bank is to reduce poverty and to promote economic development and that's really what I want to stress,
You're not going to find it in a house-to-house search. You're going to find it when people start to talk to you, and we're in the process of finding the people who can talk,
There was a solid consensus that this was the appropriate and needed action, that we had been reasonable but reached a point where we had to be firm.