"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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"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
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