Paul Wolfowitz

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

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

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

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

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

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.

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.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.