Richard Perle Quotes
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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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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
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Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
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In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
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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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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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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. 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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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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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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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 unmanned airplane.