Words matter. These are the best Richard Perle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
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.
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
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.
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.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
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.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
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 diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
