American - Public | December 22, 1943 -
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.
Paul Wolfowitz
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The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
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Democracy is a process.
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I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
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For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
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I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.
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It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.
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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.
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Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
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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.
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You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
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Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
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