Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

#external #forces #internal #justify #military

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty. ↗

— Richard Perle

#liberty #time #united #will

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american #closely #europe #integrated #interest

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

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#been #central #changed #culture #director

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#bigger #event #go #iran #much

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

— Richard Perle

#confused #invisibility #law-abiding #law-abiding citizens #privacy

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#forfeits #government #national #national sovereignty #obligation

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

— Richard Perle

#allies #also #animate #cold #cold war