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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My assessment is there is no comprehensive oil policy today,
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the notion of a Saddam Hussein, with his great oil wealth, with his inventory that he already has of biological and chemical weapons, that he might actually acquire a nuclear weapon is, I think a frightening proposition for anybody who thinks about it.
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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.
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Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.
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The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
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Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.
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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
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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.'