Richard Perle
Richard Perle
Richard Norman Perleis an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government as a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. Later he was heavily involved with the Reagan administration and served as an assistant Secretary of Defense and also worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board in 2001 under the Bush Administration but eventually...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth16 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
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.
We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.
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.
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.
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.
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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.
I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.
When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.