Paul Wolfowitz

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

Democracy is a process.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

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.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.