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Richard Perle is an American public servant and political commentator known for his work as an Assistant Secretary of Defense and his influence on U.S. defense policy. His advocacy on national security issues and his writings on political strategy have made him a prominent figure in American political discourse. Perle's career reflects a focus on shaping defense and foreign policy from a conservative perspective.
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"In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty."

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"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."

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

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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."

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"But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules."

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"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe."

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

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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."

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

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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."

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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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"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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"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane."

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"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."

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