Richard Perle

“This is a war for the soul of Islam. And those of us who are not Muslims must support those Muslims who want to reclaim their religion.”

“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.”

“The failure to find weapons of mass destruction has been a disappointment, and it's been a surprise.”

“Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves to be in the dock, not in the driver's seat. He's a menace.”

“Iraq is a very good candidate for democratic reform.”

“Thank God for the death of the UN.”

“Sometimes you have to be able to run risks. And sometimes they don't pay off.”

“The intelligence was wrong, and I'm not going to try to pretend that it wasn't.”

“At the end of the day, the decision to go to war is a political decision, not a legal one.”

“Relax, take a deep breath. It's a long war. We're just at the beginning of it.”

“Look, the notion that we are going to be able to win this war on the cheap is a dangerous illusion.”

“The U.N. can't be a serious institution.”

“We are in a new kind of war. It's a war against a global network of terrorists.”