Israel Quotes by Richard Perle

8 Israel quotes by Richard Perle

Richard Perle’s nine remarks on Israel pack a punch despite their brevity. The selection offers a straightforward glimpse into his viewpoint, useful for a quick read.

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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.…

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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…

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Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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