Michael Ledeen Quotations

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation

Punish all the guilty parties, whoever they are, and do everything possible to prevent anything of the sort happening again.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.