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You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

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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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My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
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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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One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.
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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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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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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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I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.
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As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.
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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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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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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 they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
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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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The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.
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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 go up they go down.
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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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We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.
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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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I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.
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Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
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