Richard Perle Quotes

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And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. 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. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.

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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.

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The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies—and I rather doubt that they would—would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

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The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

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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.

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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.

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We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

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I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

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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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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.

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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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About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."

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