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I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
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I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.
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I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.
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I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.
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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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Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.
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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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[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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