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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.

Topics: Party, Thinking, Government, Labour Party

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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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.66, Random House

Topics: Differences, Sight, May, Subversion

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Topics: Country, Government, Terrorist

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

Topics: Europe, Paris, Government

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

Topics: Europe, Unqualified, Interest

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

Topics: War, People, Enemy, Start Wars

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.

Topics: Agency, Culture, Directors

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.96, Random House

Topics: Iran, Weapons, Events

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

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.64, Random House

Topics: Law, Bars, Aliens, Admission, American Law

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.236, Random House

Topics: People, United States, Way, Legality

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.104, Random House

Topics: Government, Rights, Roles, Forfeit, Entitlement Programs

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

Topics: Rights, Community, Citizens, National Community

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

Topics: War, Citizens, Lax, Multiculturalism

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.

source: - "Turkey at the Crossroads". Luncheon keynote speech at a AEI conference, www.aei.org, September 22, 2003.

Topics: Iraq, Numbers, People

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.

source: - "Richard Perle: The Making of a Neoconservative". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2002.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Iraq, Undertakings

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Topics: Military, Organization, Support

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

source: - Debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

Topics: Eye, Sometimes

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.57, Random House

Topics: Country, Support, Three, Moral Support

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Topics: Jealousy, War, Allies

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

Topics: Confused, Law, Two, Law Abiding Citizen, Invisibility Cloak

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

Topics: Iraq, Talking, Years

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.

source: - "Saddam's Ultimate Solution". Interview with James P. Rubin, www.pbs.org. July 11, 2002.

Topics: Country, Oil, Iraq

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Topics: Lying, Deceit

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

Topics: Government, Tyrants, Rights

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.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

Topics: Airplane, Soldier, Done, Sensors

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

Topics: Korea, Liberty, United

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.

Topics: War, Men, Ideas

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

source: - Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

Topics: Military, Police, Secret, Secret Police

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 Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

source: - David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.12, Random House

Topics: War, Our Generation, Evil, Middle Way

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

source: - "Another look into Putin's soul?" By Jill Dougherty, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2005.

Topics: Soul, Updates, Should

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