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Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

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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
Richard Cheney
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I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.
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Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
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I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
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I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.
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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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Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
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Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
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I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.
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Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.
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I think freedom means freedom for everybody.
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The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.
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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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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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I have not seen Al Gore's movie.
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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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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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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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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 reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.
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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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