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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Former Vice President Of The United States
Politician
Lincoln
Nebraska
Richard Bruce Cheney
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I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
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I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
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The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.
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I think freedom means freedom for everybody.
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Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
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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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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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It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
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Direct threats require decisive action.
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in my chest. It was battery operated. That kept me alive for 20 months and that got me to the transplant. And I wake up every morning now with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see.
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I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
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I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
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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 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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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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I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.
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Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.
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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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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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I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.
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