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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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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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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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Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
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We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.
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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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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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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
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Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.
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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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Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.
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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
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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 have not seen Al Gore's movie.
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I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
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The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
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Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
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There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.
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The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.
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If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.
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