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
China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I dont believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly dont believe they do fear the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz
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. – Paul Wolfowitz
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. – Paul Wolfowitz
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas