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• People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Paris, People

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Minorities, Bad Things

  "The Busy Life of Being a Lightning Rod for Bush". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Impossible, Problem, Supposed To Be

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• Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Giving, Doctrine

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• I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Mean, Iraq

  "Wolfowitz On U.S. Role In Other Nations' Affairs". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 05, 2009.

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• People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Leader, World

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  America, Track, Republican

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Tyrants, Warning, Regimes

  "Wolfowitz Praises Poland's Emergence as NATO Leader" by John D. Banusiewicz, archive.defense.gov. October 5, 2004.

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• Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Employee, Firing

  "Crisis Mode Grips World Bank Headquarters" by Emad Mekay, original.antiwar.com. April 22, 2007.

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• You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Winning, Problem, Chasing

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• After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Vacuums, Regimes, Dangerous

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Donald Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Worry, Sound, Goes On

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Islamic, States, Results

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Good Relationship, Allies, Trump

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Thinking, Broken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Blow, Europe, Support

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• Donald Trump seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are doing. That is dangerous.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Ukraine, Trump, Dangerous

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Iraq, Want

  Paul Wolfowitz's remarks at the press conference in Mosul, Iraq, July 21, 2003.

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• Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Opportunity, Voice, Action

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• There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Army, Iraq

  House Budget Committee testimony on Iraq, February 27, 2003.

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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.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Thinking, Political

  "The Busy Life of Being a Lightning Rod for Bush" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Father, Years, Political

  "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.

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• The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Stupid, Wmd, Government

  "Pentagon challenges Vanity Fair report" by Jamie McIntyre, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2003.

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• I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Views, Alternatives, Asking

  "Wolfowitz Elected 10th President of the World Bank". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 31, 2005.

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