Dick Cheney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,”
-- Dick CheneySource : "Iraq crisis: Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much" by Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2014.
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“We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.”
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“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
-- Dick CheneySource : "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
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“You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.”
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“I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”
-- Dick CheneySource : www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2005.
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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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“I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.”
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“Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.”
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“We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.”
-- Dick CheneySource : Interview with Tony Snow, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 29, 2006.
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“I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.”
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“I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.”
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“After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.”
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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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“It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.”
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“There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.”
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“I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.”
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“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.”
-- Dick CheneySource : CNN's "Inside Politics Weekend" with Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. July 7, 1996.
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“The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.”
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“I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.”
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“...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.”
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“You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.”
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“Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.”
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“As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.”
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“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.”
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“The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.”
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“Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.”
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“The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.”
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“The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.”
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“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.”
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“There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.”
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