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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
Autobiographer
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Richard Bruce Cheney
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I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.
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I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.
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My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
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Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
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[In response to the question Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.
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The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
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The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.
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It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.
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I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.
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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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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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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.
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