Richard Perle Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”