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

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

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