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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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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.
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When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.
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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, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
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We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. And there's no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent 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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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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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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With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.
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I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.
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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
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In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
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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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