Richard Perle Quotes

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

  Richard Perle

  War, People, Enemy

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Roles

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.104, Random House

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

  Richard Perle

  Law, Bars, Aliens

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.64, Random House

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

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  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Support, Three

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.57, Random House

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• 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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  Sight, Differences, May

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.66, Random House

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Tyrants

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Airplane, Should Have, Soldier

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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• For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

  Richard Perle

  War, Our Generation, Evil

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.12, Random House

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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.

  Richard Perle

  Iran, Events, Weapons

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.96, Random House

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

  Richard Perle

  Military, Police, Secret

  Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  "Saddam's Ultimate Solution". Interview with James P. Rubin, www.pbs.org. July 11, 2002.

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• 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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  Rights, Community, Citizens

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

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• I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

  Richard Perle

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

  "Richard Perle: The Making of a Neoconservative". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2002.

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• 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

  Small Numbers, Iraq, People

  "Turkey at the Crossroads". Luncheon keynote speech at a AEI conference, www.aei.org, September 22, 2003.

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• When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

  Richard Perle

  Soul, Updates, Should

  "Another look into Putin's soul?" By Jill Dougherty, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2005.

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

  Richard Perle

  Jealousy, War, Allies

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

  Richard Perle

  Eye, Sometimes

  Debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  People, United States, Way

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.236, Random House

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

  Richard Perle

  Europe, Unqualified, Interest

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• Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Organization, Support

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• I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

  Richard Perle

  Thinking, Together, United States

  "An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message". Richard Perle's speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering, www.washingtonpost.com. November 1, 2006.

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Agency, Directors, Culture

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