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 certainly hope that U.S. military can be handing this off to other people long before (the end of March) but I think it's right to think of it as goal and not a deadline, ... The real objective, the mission, is to take care of the people who survived this horrible disaster.
Certainly I am also here to learn about the problems of the country today and especially the problems of very severe poverty.
I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.
indicates they will not provide adequate protection for GPS and other critical DOD systems.
It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,
The best indications of where he might be tend to point almost entirely, mostly to that area,
that fought us up until the fall of Baghdad and continues to fight afterwards.
They'll be able to read between the lines,
The costs are large, but it is a battle that we can win and a battle that we must win,
The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
I hope we can bring it together at this meeting. I am cautiously optimistic,
Indonesian investors will tell you the same thing, that the biggest discouragement to investing your money here is corruption. This problem is something that needs to be tackled across a whole range of initiatives.
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
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.