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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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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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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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