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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
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Paul Wolfowitz
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 22
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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.
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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.
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It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
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History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
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I like globalization I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
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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.
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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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People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.
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I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.
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To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.
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