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Richard Perle [1941-0] American

Rank: 104
Public Servant, Political Scientist

Richard Norman Perle is 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.

Independence, Intelligence, Jealousy, War

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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.		101
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.	War	102
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.		103
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.		104
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.	Jealousy	105
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.		106
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.		107
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.		108
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.		109
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.		110
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.		111
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.		112
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.		113
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.		114
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.		115
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.		116
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.		117
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.		118
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.		119
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.		120
We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.		121
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.	Intelligence	122
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.		123
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.	Independence	124

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