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
mass-destruction america use
America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction."..."We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems ballistic missiles that had been prohibited by the United Nations.
responsibility faces use
We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.
military thinking use
I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.
believe states target united united-states
Increasingly, we believe that the United States may well become the target of those activities,
both came measures rules
In both of these cases, these measures came up under suspended rules
fruits lots
I'm not a big pizza-eater anyway, but lots of fruits and vegetables,
people personal
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,
claim days increase mindset power seen size washington
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.
against agents biggest biological chemical cities ending face lives middle nation nuclear terrorists thousands threat threaten weapons
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,
attacks far mass september terrorists weapons worse
The attacks of September 11 were devastating, but the destruction would have been far worse if the terrorists had used weapons of mass destruction,
definitely felt move process
that hasn't been something that we felt would definitely move the process forward.
connection fair military procedures rules
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.
caused complex problems relying side supply
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,
mentioned thankful themselves
Not one of them mentioned any of it, ... They're all very thankful where they find themselves right now.