Dick Cheney Quotes

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• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them…
• We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making…
• We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center…
• We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need…
• When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote…
• You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government,…
• You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they…
• 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…
• I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11,…
• The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
• 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…
• ...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…
• Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but…
• My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
• I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
• Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.
• If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic…
• My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in]…
• "Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil…
• I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

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