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Richard Perle Quotes

born 1941 United States

Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941) 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.

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Also known as: Perle, Richard

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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.

About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."

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.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power.

Well, you’re going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

"I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." (2003)

I really don't have a solution. Except to say that a precondition for any solution must be a recognition on the part of all parties on the legitimacy of all parties. That is you cannot build a political agreement on the premise that a Jewish state in Palestine is illegitimate.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Perle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.