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

- Richard Perle

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

- Richard Perle

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

- Richard Perle

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 the…

- Richard Perle

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

- Richard Perle

In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

- Richard Perle

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

- Richard Perle

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americ…

- Richard Perle

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

- Richard Perle