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
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I've been looking forward to coming here for a tour, ... I'm extremely impressed by what I saw this morning.
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I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.
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The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out,
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The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
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This journey gives me the opportunity to pay homage to some of those who have sacrificed for our common security,
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There's a temptation, I think, because there's not an active bombing campaign under way on any particular day for people who want to run out and say, 'Well, it's over with.' It's not,
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That implies there was a timetable in the first place. ... This is a decision the administration will approach carefully.
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That is a fair summary of the problem, ... and it came from Senator Joseph Lieberman.
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That just tells me that Howard Dean doesn't know anything about how these groups operate.
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It's something you think about, but again, it's not so much a personal consideration at that point. It may have been for people who didn't have anything to do,
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Every one of them would increase the power of Washington bureaucrats and increase the size of the government's claim on your paycheck. Americans have seen the mindset before -- in the days of malaise -- and we're not going back.
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The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us -- biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans,
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They can do whatever they want to do. I know what I want to do. What I want to do is have a conversation with the American people. I would like to have people who watch the debate come away with an understanding of what our proposals are.
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They will have a fair trial, but it will be under the procedures of a military tribunal, under rules and regulations to be established in connection with that, ... We think it's the appropriate way to go.