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
significantly complicate our ability to ensure availability of critical military GPS services in a time of crisis, and at the same time assure that adversary forces are denied similar capabilities.
Only thing that really works, and it requires not only a little bit of humility but sometimes patience.
one hopes each time you get a success like that, not only to have gotten rid of somebody dangerous, but to have imposed changes in their tactics and operations and procedures.
The Secretary is not promoting any individual or group to be the future government of Iraq.
The Taliban gave a press conference today in which they suggested that we should forget about September 11 and move on, and I can assure them we will not forget about September 11, ... We are moving on, and I think before long the world will forget about the Taliban.
could be hidden in a room a fraction the size of this one.
Corruption is often at the very root of why governments don't work. It weakens the systems and distorts the markets. In the end, governments and citizens will pay a price, in lower incomes, lower investment and more volatile economic swings. But when governments do work - when they tackle corruption and improve their rule of law - they can raise their national incomes by as much as four times.
The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.
It would be to the benefit not only of Turkey and Europe but to the entire world, including my country, if the December 12 European Union summit in Copenhagen can succeed in advancing two important goals -- a settlement in Cyprus and an agreement on a date to begin talks on Turkish membership in the EU.
Sometimes when people are changing, ... they expose themselves in new ways. So we just got to keep the pressure on everywhere we are able to, and we've got to deny the sanctuaries everywhere we are able to, and we've got to put pressure on every government that is giving these people support to get out of that business.
selected because we concluded ... that these were people who might have important information or might themselves be senior people.
A final agreement is still to be reached but I welcome the government's efforts to address these issues.
The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 billion and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years,
Five years ago, a remarkable vision was laid out in this very hall, ... A vision which spelled progress and hope for humanity. It is time to deliver.