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Richard Perle
American
Public Servant
Born:
Sep 16
,
1941
American
European
People
Rights
War
Will
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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
Government
Rights
Obligation
Entitlement
Will
National
Perform
Well
Role
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Richard Perle
People
Enemies
Own
Control
Over
Because
Exert
Dictatorships
Internal
Wars
Start
External
Need
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
Soldier
Airplane
Could
Computer
Remote
Well
Operational
Commander
Task
Done
Should
Assign
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
Richard Perle
Unqualified
More
Longer
Integrated
American
Closely
Acknowledge
Interest
Europe
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
People
Will
States
Ways
Rules
UN
Must
Take
Beyond
Protect
Question
Revise
Legality
American
Jurisdiction
Establish
Cannot
Explicitly
American People
Then
Should
Measures
United
United States
Reject
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
Government
Rights
World
Example
Few
Human Rights
France
Worse
Tyrants
Record
More
Ardently
Supporting
For Example
Does
Praise
Governments
Than
Human
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
Problem
Must
Weapons
Seeks
Terrorist
Go
Iran
Than
Any
Bigger
Regime
Much
Event
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Richard Perle
Time
Liberty
Will
Korea
United
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
Richard Perle
Eyes
Sometimes
Others
Objectionable
Things
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
Richard Perle
War
Jealousy
Cold
Cold War
Our
Allies
Animate
Also
Terrorists
Affect
Former
Many
Resentment
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
Richard Perle
Oppose
More
Terrorists
Were
Governments
Than
Same
Confront
Us
European
Prepared
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
Freedom
Three
Country
Before
Action
Strike
Moral
Must
Inside
Entry
Support
Within
Material
Terrorists
Deny
Stop
Curtail
Them
Deprive
Things
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Richard Perle
Lose
Dissent
Sight
Between
Protect
May
Difference
Subversion
Eager
Right
We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
Richard Perle
Paris
Between
Force
Governments
Should
Choose
European
Washington
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
Time
Director
Culture
Intelligence
Changed
Enough
Has-Been
He
Failed
Since
Go
George
Been
Central
Agency
Should
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.
Richard Perle
War
Great
Together
World
Vision
Try
Will
Diplomacy
Clever
Our
Embrace
Total
Total War
About
Entirely
Songs
Great Songs
Piece
Sing
Wage
Go
Years
Just
Children
Forth
Us
Now
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
Richard Perle
Law
Alien
Admission
Terrorist
American
Suspected
Bars
Activity
Now
Right
Sympathies
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.
Richard Perle
People
Doubt
Liberated
No Doubt
Small
Exception
Understand
Been
Iraq
Very
Close
Vicious
Regime
Number
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
Richard Perle
Independence
Our
Must
Ally
Europe
Strategic
Utmost
British
Preserve
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