Richard Perle
Richard Perle
Richard Norman Perleis 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. Later he was heavily involved with the Reagan administration and served as an assistant Secretary of Defense and also worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board in 2001 under the Bush Administration but eventually...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth16 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.
The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies and I rather doubt that they would would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.
When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.
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.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.
No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
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.
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.