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Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government as a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. Later he was heavily involved with the Reagan administration and served as an assistant Secretary of Defense and also worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board in 2001 under the Bush Administration but eventually resigned in 2003 due to conflict of interests.

He is a member of several think-tanks including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy , the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research , the neoconservative Project for the New American Century , and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs . He is also on the board of the global data collection firm RIWI Corp. Till December 2015 He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group. He is also a patron of the Henry Jackson Society. Perle has written extensively on a number of issues. His cited research interests including defense, national security, and the Middle East. Aside from these engagements, Perle is the former co-chairman and director of Hollinger, Inc., a partner of Trireme Partners and a non-executive director of Autonomy Corporation.

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Famous Richard Perle Quotes

“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.”

Richard Perle

The Times (25 September, 1986).

“Well, you’re going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.”

Richard Perle

PBS Think Tank interview by Ben Wattenberg, November 14, 2002
Source: http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1017.html

“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.”

Richard Perle

An End To Evil: How To Win the War on Terror, David Frum, Richard N. Perle, Ballantine (reprint,2004), Chapter 5 'The War Abroad,' p. 102 : ISBN 0345477170

“I really don't have a solution. Except to say that a precondition for any solution must be a recognition on the part of all parties on the legitimacy of all parties. That is you cannot build a political agreement on the premise that a Jewish state in Palestine is illegitimate.”

Richard Perle

When asked about a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a 1988 debate with Noam Chomsky at Ohio State University
Source: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=8409 http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=130

“About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."”

Richard Perle

Notes: newspaper article reporting on Perle's statements at a meeting of the Hudson Institute on May 14, 2007.
Source: "Perle Turns on Bush in Harsh Terms", by Nicholas Wapshott, New York Sun, May 15, 2007 http://www.nysun.com/article/54448?page_no=1

Richard Perle Quotes

“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”

Richard Perle
Thinking , Country

“And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. 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. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.”

Richard Perle

Notes: from luncheon keynote speech, "Turkey at the Crossroads", September 22, 2003
Source: http://www.aei.org/events/contentID.20031003144313426/default.asp
Source: http://www.catch.com/comments/34635_0_17_0_C/

People , Understanding , Sense

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

Richard Perle

2005 February 17 - In a debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University

Secret

“I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”

Richard Perle

2003
Notes: in reference to the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html

Law , Way , Thinking

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