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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It's not surprising that we would ask him to come down and spend some time with us talking about the transition, talking about how you might put together your national security team for the prospective Bush administration,
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It's a very serious problem, it's not just a difference of opinion. He makes these statements as if there's absolutely nothing wrong in the U.S. military, and then says ... we're going to spend $100 million to fix it. You can't have it both ways.
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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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Tomorrow, I will be traveling to Crawford, Texas, with General Colin Powell and our wives to spend the day with Governor Bush and Laura Bush. This will give us an opportunity for an extended discussion on the transition between General Powell, myself and Governor Bush,
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Al Gore clearly wants to take most of the surplus and spend it on bigger government. We have an interest in supporting programs that will give people more choices, control of their own lives, and can give some of the surplus back to them.
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I hope the Democrats spend the next three months going after my voting record, I'll be happy to defend it, ... But in the meantime, we're going to talk about the future of the country, and we're going to win the election.
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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.