I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. – Paul Wolfowitz
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
Its wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isnt paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. – 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
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and 60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. – Fareed Zakaria