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

Dick Cheney

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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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Richard Bruce Cheney
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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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We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
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I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.
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The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
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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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Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
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The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.
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We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.
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I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.
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Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
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I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.
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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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I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.
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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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Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.
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I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.
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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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