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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We must support those around the world who are taking risks to advance freedom, justice and democracy -- just as President Reagan did. American policy must be clear and consistent in its purposes, ... And American leaders -- above all the commander in chief -- must be confident in our nation's cause and unwavering until the danger to our people is fully and finally removed.
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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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My assessment is there is no comprehensive oil policy today,
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I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions and that's appropriate. I don't think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.
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Part of the problem here is that instead of having a substantive debate over important substantive policy issues, he had challenged my integrity, and I didn't like that. But most of all I didn't like the fact that after he'd done so, then he wanted to act like everything was peaches and cream.
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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.