Richard Perle Quotes

• But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

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  Tags in Must, Cannot

• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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  Tags in American, Interest, Longer

• Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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  Tags in Enemies, Need, War

• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

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  Tags in Enemies, Must, Secret

• If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Together, War

• George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency’s culture. He has failed. He should go.

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  Tags in Enough, Since, Culture

• Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

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  Tags in Human, Government

• In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

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  Tags in Problem, Weapon

• National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

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  Tags in Government, Rights, National

• In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

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  Tags in United, Korea

• Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity – but not of terrorist sympathies.

  Richard Perle

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  Tags in Right, Law, American

• Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

  Richard Perle

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  Tags in Eyes, Others, Sometimes

• No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

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  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Soldier

• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

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  Tags in Confused, Same

• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

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  Tags in American, Rights

• Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

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  Tags in Right, Political

• The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

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  Tags in War, Cold

• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation’s greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

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  Tags in Greatest, War, Nation

• The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

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  Tags in Same, Prepared, Terrorists

• 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.

  Richard Perle

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  Tags in Doubt, Small, Understand

Richard Perle (24)

Birth:	16th September, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Advisor, Consultant, Politician

About

Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government as a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s.

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