American - Public | December 22, 1943 -
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
Paul Wolfowitz
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Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
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I can't predict the future.
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History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
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