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. Richard Perle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. Richard Perle Read Quote
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. Richard Perle Read Quote
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. Richard Perle Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Richard Perle Read Quote
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. Richard Perle Read Quote
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. Richard Perle Read Quote
