Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitzis a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth22 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.
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.
You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.
We are changing the way we design our projects, so that they address the incentives and opportunities to fight corruption right from the start. Enforcement alone will not cure corruption. How much we do, and how much progress we make, depends on the desire of both governments and civil society to create the right setting for sound, strong, sustainable development.
We can't commit money unless we're convinced it is going to be spent in the right way,
We want Army weapons systems that are more mobile, lethal and deployable,
We need to do more to address this issue and to hold private corporations accountable for exporting corruption to emerging economies.
Trade barriers to the developing countries, particularly in the area of agriculture, are really shocking,
We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.
We are committed to getting it done and we expect real progress at these meetings,
We are going from an era where nobody wanted to say no to anything, to an era when people have to be encouraged that if there are serious problems, they bring them forward, and saying no is a good thing.
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.
We're still considering what to do with him. There's no decision yet.
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.