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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
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Richard Perle
politician, political scientist, political adviser
1941
Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member to Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. He served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004 where he served as chairman from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush administration before resigning due to conflict of interests.
All Quotes by Richard Perle
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"I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." (2003)
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And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. 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. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.
— Richard Perle
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Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
— Richard Perle
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I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power.
— Richard Perle
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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.
— Richard Perle
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About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."
— Richard Perle
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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
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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
— Richard Perle
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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
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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
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The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
— Richard Perle