Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

I would hope that we have in place the adequate resources to become an army of occupation because you’re going to walk into chaos

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

The concept of military readiness is well understood, but readiness for what happens after the fighting stops is just as important.

If I had 50,000 additional troops here now, I believe I could substantially close the [civil] war in two weeks.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

We have won the war. Now we have to win the peace, and it may be more difficult.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place

History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities

I don’t see why it would take more troops to occupy the country than to take down the regime.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

All wars are mishandled.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.