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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Members of this alliance have faced monumental challenges, and we have overcome them together, ... And in this new century, facing new challenges, we must remain united to defend our freedom and meet the shared duties of free nations.
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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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We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.
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I think we're faced with, and to some extent have been through, this watershed that most of the rest of the world hasn't been through yet,
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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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Given where we are, both diplomatically as well as in the region, we're getting close to the point where the president is going to have to make an important decision, ... Face the Nation.
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I may well be called as a witness at some point in the case, and it is therefore inappropriate for me to comment on any facet of the case.
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If there's a place on the face of the earth that has the resources to deal with these problems it's the United States of America, and we're going to get it done, ... There's no question there were problems with respect to the evacuation in New Orleans. We've gotten around that problem now, and I think everyone's focused on the future.
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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.