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've been in the business for a long time and never seen a situation quite like this. We've had experiences where the president has been shot. We've never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
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Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest,
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You cannot succeed in this effort if you're not willing to recognize the enormous contribution the Iraqis are increasingly making to their own future.
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
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We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
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Once you make the election you cannot change it, ... He had no knowledge at the time he would be a vice presidential candidate or that he might be going back into the government.
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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.'