Paul Wolfowitz

“The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason.”

“There's a lot of money in Iraq. I mean, they have a lot of oil. And that oil is going to be the source of revenue to pay for their own reconstruction.”

“It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the weapons of mass destruction.”

“We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”

“The notion that the United States is some sort of imperial power is a complete absurdity. We are the most reluctant imperial power in history.”

“Regime change in Iraq is not the goal. The goal is to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.”

“I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.”

“There are a lot of things that are in our national interest in that part of the world, one of them is the security of Israel.”

“The number of U.S. troops in Iraq is not the most important metric. The most important metric is how many Iraqis are being trained to take over.”

“We had virtually no casualties in landing and establishing the beachhead. It was only after all the supplies were ashore that we started to take casualties. It was not a brilliant military move.”

“Terrorism is a tactic. You can't declare war on a tactic.”