"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
WarView Quote
"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.“
-Paul Wolfowitz
posted in Fear
Other Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz
Discover more inspiring quotes by Paul Wolfowitz
"Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center."
-Paul Wolfowitz
ImaginationView Quote
"I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"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."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"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
ScienceView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
FearView Quote
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
FearView Quote
"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
FearView Quote
"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
FearView Quote
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
FearView Quote
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
FearView Quote