Richard Perle Quotes

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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…
• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
• No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.
• 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…
• These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
• 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…
• 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…
• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
• The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
• We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
• In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
• 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…
• Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
• Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
• Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
• 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.
• 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…
• Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
• 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…

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