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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I disagree with Jack and believe his proposal would not serve the best interest of this nation. But he's a good man, a Marine, a patriot, and he's taking a clear stand in an entirely legitimate discussion,
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The reason we are not much worse off from an economic standpoint is because of the tax cut. That the president's tax cut was approved by the Congress has been the best-timed dose of fiscal medicine the economy has ever received,
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We still have, I think, a society where we haven't done enough yet to live up to that standard that we'd all like to live up to, I think, in terms of equality of opportunity, that we judge people as individuals. As Martin Luther King said, we ought to judge people on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. I would hope that we can continue to make progress in that regard in the years ahead.
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We are not going to simply stand by.
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We've got to make some kind of forecast, ... While it may be a little risky in some respects from an economic standpoint to make forecasts...you have to make some kind of planning.
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He's a good man, a Marine, a patriot ? and he's taking a clear stand in an entirely legitimate discussion, ... my friend and former colleague.
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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.