Paul Wolfowitz Quotes (93 Quotes)

The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away from this idea that we're there as an occupation force. We came as liberators. That's our mission.

That kind of participation in decision-making at the local level greatly helps the development process.

If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.

We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,

The areas of common or joint interest have increased over time.

The message is that there is no safe haven for looted funds or corrupt activities.

You're not going to find it in a house-to-house search. You're going to find it when people start to talk to you, and we're in the process of finding the people who can talk,

High tariffs keep them out of key markets, and tariffs and subsidies together drive down the world price of their exports. Without the income that trade could provide, it is their children who go hungry and who are deprived of clean water, medicines and other basic necessities of life.

The fact that we're moving with one and holding up on five is a very strong message to the Kenyan Government.

Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.

I hope we can bring it together at this meeting. I am cautiously optimistic,

But if he turned up somewhere else, I would not be totally surprised, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

What we're looking for and what I think to some extent we're getting is both much stronger commitments from the G-8 countries as to how they will implement their obligations ... and then to make sure that they are not the only contributors here,

I am asking the committee to look for candidates who share our commitment to the Bank Group's mission of poverty reduction, who have extensive experience in developing countries and preferably come from developing countries and who are dedicated to assuring that the Bank Group is a model of integrity and accountability,

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.

selected because we concluded ... that these were people who might have important information or might themselves be senior people.

The committee represents the Bank Group's regions and network as well as its rich diversity of personnel,

If we have to do some things that people say -- you know, 'you're just scraping over the past, you're giving us all this shocking stuff, why should our children have to see it on television' Let me tell you that the main consideration on the other side in our minds is saving the lives of American men and women who are on the line,

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

When you are in a poor country that is challenged just to meet kind of basic needs, compensating farmers adequately and having a framework for doing that gets to be an expensive proposition.

Because thousands of brave men and women from 22 nations put their lives on the line, the face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better,

Overall, India is doing impressively well, and it's a very encouraging story of how a very large country with an extraordinarily diverse population can make real inroads in poverty reduction and in development with a democratic system, and I think that's encouraging.

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

From the World Bank point of view, it's a welcome possibility that contributions to the IDA would be increased and facilitated.

Above and beyond the humanitarian considerations -- which would be compelling enough -- we have an enormous interest in seeing this succeed,

As large as these costs are, they are still small compared to just the economic price that the attacks of September 11th inflicted, to say nothing of the terrible loss of human life, ... And even those costs are small in comparison to what future, more terrible terrorist attacks could inflict.

The mission of the World Bank is to reduce poverty and to promote economic development and that's really what I want to stress,

It is still a small sum compared with the damage that could be done if we fail to prevent the spread of the disease. International financing will be critical.

In recent days, the Syrians have been shipping killers into Iraq to try to kill Americans -- we don't welcome that,

Only thing that really works, and it requires not only a little bit of humility but sometimes patience.

He's being treated consistent with the Geneva protections for prisoners of war,

It used to be that when a country joined the nuclear club, they suddenly decided that it was just large enough, and they didn't want to help anyone else join. ...Now we have countries joining the nuclear missile club who say 'the more the merrier.' North Korea is out selling its dangerous technology to anyone who wants to spend the money to buy it.

The oil revenues of that country could bring between 50 billion and 100 billion over the course of the next two or three years,

Trade barriers to the developing countries, particularly in the area of agriculture, are really shocking,

As impressive as that election was, Iraq still faces a difficult road ahead,

The fight against terror is going to be a long fight, but have no doubt about it, we will win,

We have agreement on more aid, we have consensus on debt relief -- now let's complete the picture and deliver a true development round on trade.

If I can paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, the new government should be of the Iraqis, by the Iraqis, for the Iraqis -- not to make them a colonial administration or a U. N. administration or run in any way by foreigners,

If these amendments become law, it will harm the well-being of Chad's poorest and most vulnerable citizens and represent a material breach of the original agreement.

This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.

When it comes back to the test of whether we (the World Bank) are doing our job or not, it's whether we're promoting development, not whether we're promoting democracy.

People are entitled to present their views any way they want to, entitled to present uninformed views as well as informed ones.

We will be working to advance the debt relief agreement that was reached by the G-8 in Gleneagles to ensure that the debt cancellation is accompanied by real additional resources, ... We have been working with all the parties to move this forward. We are committed to getting it done, and we expect real progress at these meetings.

There was a solid consensus that this was the appropriate and needed action, that we had been reasonable but reached a point where we had to be firm.

This is a historic agreement combining increased financing with debt relief, which will help poor countries meet the millennium development goals.

is a danger we can't afford to live with indefinitely.

For any country it is sensitive to have foreign troops on your territory. It would be sensitive in the United States, and I can tell you it is extremely sensitive in Indonesia, ... What is remarkable is that it has caused no problems to date.

The penalty for whispering about Saddam is just horrendous, worse than death actually, ... It can be the death of your children.

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Unless serious concessions are made by all sides ... the Doha round of trade talks will fail and the people who will suffer the most are the world's poor.