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… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
