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 not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,
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.
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.
A trade agreement in Hong Kong would provide the spur for investment and economic growth that promises a lasting exit from poverty for millions, even billions, of people in developing countries.
Sometimes when people are changing, ... they expose themselves in new ways. So we just got to keep the pressure on everywhere we are able to, and we've got to deny the sanctuaries everywhere we are able to, and we've got to put pressure on every government that is giving these people support to get out of that business.
selected because we concluded ... that these were people who might have important information or might themselves be senior people.
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,
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,
Unless serious concessions are made by all sides ... the Doha round of trade talks will fail and the people who will suffer the most are the world's poor.
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.
We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,
People are entitled to present their views any way they want to, entitled to present uninformed views as well as informed ones.
Our goal in Iraq is a democratic Iraq that truly respects the wishes of the people of Iraq, ... We can set up some parameters for a process, but we cannot write a blueprint.
Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.