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
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
It used to be that when a country joined the nuclear club, they suddenly decided that it was just large enough, and they didn't want to help anyone else join. ...Now we have countries joining the nuclear missile club who say 'the more the merrier.' North Korea is out selling its dangerous technology to anyone who wants to spend the money to buy it.
It will be in their hands to decide early next week.
It should do so in a manner that respects and enhances individual freedoms, as well as the role of markets in allocating resources.
It is still a small sum compared with the damage that could be done if we fail to prevent the spread of the disease. International financing will be critical.
The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.
That kind of participation in decision-making at the local level greatly helps the development process.
It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,
They'll be able to read between the lines,
Above and beyond the humanitarian considerations -- which would be compelling enough -- we have an enormous interest in seeing this succeed,
For any country it is sensitive to have foreign troops on your territory. It would be sensitive in the United States, and I can tell you it is extremely sensitive in Indonesia, ... What is remarkable is that it has caused no problems to date.
This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.
It's been on our agenda ever since the fall of Baghdad,
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.