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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Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest,
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I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.
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I'd spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in '93, decided I'd go spend the rest of my career in the private sector, and then the president tapped me to come be his running mate. And it's been a remarkable experience. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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Forty-nine percent increase in funding for elementary and secondary education under No Child Left Behind, ... That's a lot of money even by Massachusetts' standards.
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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.
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They've got a whole complex of problems that are caused by relying only on conservation and not doing anything about the supply side of the equation,