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It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

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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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Richard Bruce Cheney
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The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
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I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.
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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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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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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.
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I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.
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A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
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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 to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in my chest. It was battery operated. That kept me alive for 20 months and that got me to the transplant. And I wake up every morning now with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see.
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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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Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
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I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see.
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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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I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
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I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.
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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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Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
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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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