Richard Perle

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.

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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

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Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

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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.

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Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

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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.

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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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Quotes by Richard Perle