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 am familiar with the arguments against taking action in the case of Saddam Hussein, ... Some concede that Saddam is evil, power hungry and a menace, but that until he crosses the threshold of actually possessing nuclear weapons, we should rule out any preemptive action. That logic seems to me to be deeply flawed.
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I have accepted his decision with deep regret.
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It's good to know that far into the future people will come to this place and learn of Howard's career and his deep belief in the nobility of public service,
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Whether there was a deeper level of involvement than that, I don't know,
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I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.
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Increasingly, we believe that the United States may well become the target of those activities,
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In both of these cases, these measures came up under suspended rules
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I'm not a big pizza-eater anyway, but lots of fruits and vegetables,
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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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The attacks of September 11 were devastating, but the destruction would have been far worse if the terrorists had used weapons of mass destruction,
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that hasn't been something that we felt would definitely move the process forward.
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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.