Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

A free Cuba, working for the well-being of the people, was the aim of many of the men who supported Castro, but when it became evident that one tyranny was being supplanted by another some of them began to feel again the urge for the real freedom they had hoped for and fought for. Whereupon, they deserted.

If you go and live with these Arabs, you will find that they cannot understand our ideas of freedom and human dignity. They have lived so long under dictatorships of one kind or another, how can we expect them to run successfully a free government?

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

I say that the most inefficient, wasteful self-government is worth more than the most efficient dictatorship.

You don’t go from tyranny to democracy overnight.

Colombians! I will not speak to you of freedom, because if I keep my promises, you will be more than free. You will be respected…. Besides in a dictatorship who can speak of freedom.

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'

The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.