"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
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"I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive."
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"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."
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"That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views."
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"I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away."
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