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
It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.
There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.
Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
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.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.