Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney, generally known as Dick Cheneyis an American politician and businessman who was the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CityLincoln, NE
CountryUnited States of America
real gun men
Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
thinking defense united-states
As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.
iraq lines enormous
The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.
military thinking levels
I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
iraq track records
I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.
mean people important
The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
war mistake fall
Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.
mean views people
With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.
lying two oil
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
iraq action things-to-do
What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.
als global-warming gore
I have not seen Al Gore's movie.
interrogation-techniques bigs supporter
I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques ...
impact events nuclear
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.
thinking faults funny-bush
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,