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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Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics,
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When you triple our commitments around the world, while at the same time taking the Army from 14 divisions down to 10... and the Air Force from 17 wings to 13 ... and the Navy from well over 400 ships down toward fewer than 300 -- That Mr. Gore, is
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American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures -- conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers -- and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie,
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a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.
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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.
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we're very actively engaged in trying to keep the lid on there.