Dick Cheney Quotes

• The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

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• Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual – America sees two John Kerrys.

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• One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

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• No, I’ve always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it’s demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

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• It’s very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, “This is not a criminal act,” not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That’s an act of war.

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• It’s not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We’ve gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it’s a – very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

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• In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That’s my job.

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• In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate – and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

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• If you’re going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you’re going to slow down the extent to which we’re able to reduce unemployment. So I think it’s a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

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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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• I’ve worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there’s no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

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• I’m absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

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• I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They’re loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

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• I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that’s essential.

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• I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

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• I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

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• I mean, it’s not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It’s the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time – thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

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• I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry’s position on Iraq; “consistent” is not one of them.

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Birth:	30th January, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is an American politician who was the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, under President George W. Bush. He attended Yale, then the University of Wyoming, where he earned a BA and an MA in Political Science. He served as the White House Chief of Staff, from 1975 to 1977. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wyoming's At-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989. He was selected to be the Secretary of Defense during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush, holding the position for the majority of Bush's term from 1989 to 1993. Out of office during the Clinton administration, Cheney was the Chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000. Cheney published his memoir In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, in 2011. In 2015, he published another book, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America. He has been cited as the most powerful Vice President in American history.

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