Paul Wolfowitz Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Iraq, Democracy

• There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, War, Two

• It's 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 secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Army, Iraq

  "Wolfowitz On U.S. Role In Other Nations' Affairs". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 5, 2009.

• 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.

• 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.

• NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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.

• That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Views, Europe

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