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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supporting the status quo, because we thought the status quo would bring us security and would bring us stability. Sept. 11 just changed that in a way that's irreversible for us.
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I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
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Once you make the election you cannot change it, ... He had no knowledge at the time he would be a vice presidential candidate or that he might be going back into the government.
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Given the nature of the enemy we face today, and the fact that their ultimate objective is to force us to change our policies and to retreat within our borders, the last thing we need is to convey the impression that terrorists can change our policies through violence and intimidation,
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Our mission in Iraq is a great undertaking and part of a larger mission that the United States accepted now more than two years ago. September 11, 2001 changed everything for this country.
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We talked about expediting the funds for ... the people whose homes burned and their businesses burned.
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What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,
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We lost everything at once . . . communications, power grid, infrastructure.
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We have to discuss that with the Israelis,
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We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.
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What's happening in California today is they've taken the route of saying all we have to do is conserve, ... And today they've got rolling blackouts because they don't have enough electricity.
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We will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter for some future administration to resolve, ... As the president has said, 'Time is not on our side.'
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We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terrorists and a record of reckless aggression to dominate the Middle East and to threaten the United States of America.
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We are very concerned with the loss of life now on both sides. The level of violence appears to be escalating. That's clearly not in anybody's interest. We need to find some way to try to cap the violence and get some process started to rebuild confidence.