Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed.…

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I…

— Richard Perle

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote…

— Richard Perle

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece…

— Richard Perle

I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program…

— Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has…

— Richard Perle

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures…

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a…

— Richard Perle

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO…

— Richard Perle

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in…

— Richard Perle

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people…

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle