Richard Perle Quotes

• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

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• We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally’s strategic independence from Europe.

   

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  Tags in Europe, British

• We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

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  Tags in Right, Between

• To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

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  Tags in Freedom

• 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.

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  Tags in Doubt, Small, Understand

• 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

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

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  Tags in War, Cold

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

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  Tags in Eyes, Others, Sometimes

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

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  Tags in Right, Law, American

• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Soldier

• 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

• 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

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

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• 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

• 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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  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

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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