Richard Perle — American Public Servant born on September 16, 1941,

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... (wikipedia)

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
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.
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.