Richard Perle Quotes

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

We've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face.

Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising?

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism.

I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.