Richard Perle Quotes

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight the terrorists at their source, both on the ground and in the battle for hearts and minds.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.

The fight against terrorism will not be over tomorrow or next month, or even next year. The fight will endure for years to come, and as the threat changes, so too must we adapt to these transformations.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Counter-terrorism is not solely a military matter.

If you want to know what a terrorist is doing, you have to put an agent in their camp.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

Terrorist infiltration should be resisted not at the national level, but at the international policies level.

We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At an airport – okay, at an airport. If we catch them in a lavatory, in an outhouse, we will take them out there with their pants down.

We have an obligation to go after Al Qaeda wherever they are.

How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate freely?

How can you prevent an attack by returning foreign fighters if you are not cognizant of their names and links to ISIS?