59 Quotes by Richard Perle

Look, he's trying to change an institution that is very set in its ways and that's not easy. You've got some disgruntled former officers. It's no big deal.

The problem is the message, ... The message is confused and inconsistent. It posits a problem, but does not provide a convincing solution. Only if the problem and the solution are in balance can they hope to convince a skeptical public.

We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.

What's the big fuss about preemption? You'd shoot first if someone was planning to shoot you right?

The situation in Bosnia is such that a safe withdrawal of American forces can be made effective. The scale of the problem is now such that it is entirely manageable by the Europeans.

President Chirac has said Saddam Hussein was his friend -- a friend, one of the most brutal dictators in this world?

a formal warning that the agency's enforcement staff has determined that evidence of wrongdoing is sufficient to bring a civil lawsuit.

After 9/11, there was an awakening. The administration has to believe that it's possible to wait too long to deal with a problem, the contours of which could have been seen easily before. Is it safe to do that again?

It's Saddam Hussein's style of justice, and it's appalling.