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Richard Perle Quotes: Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
         

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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In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.



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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.



Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.



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



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.

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



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.

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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