Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney, generally known as Dick Cheneyis an American politician and businessman who was the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CityLincoln, NE
CountryUnited States of America
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I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.
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That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try..
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You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.
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We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
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Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.
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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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We are grateful to members of the Third Battalion 25th Marines who served along the Euphrates River corridor,
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We are not going to simply stand by.
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What we've done and will do, I'm sure, in part, is reach out for some experienced hands, but we also are going to want new talent, we're going to want to emphasize diversity and we're going to want a broad Cabinet.
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The positive news is we appear to be making progress,
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When you start to piece it all together, and again we haven't finished the investigation and maybe it is coincidence, but I must say I'm a skeptic, ... I think the only responsible thing for us to do is to proceed on the basis they could be linked.
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When you triple our commitments around the world, while at the same time taking the Army from 14 divisions down to 10... and the Air Force from 17 wings to 13 ... and the Navy from well over 400 ships down toward fewer than 300 -- That Mr. Gore, is
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We've also got some great career professionals, an absolute and vital part of the operation - couldn't do it without them. They're the ones that continue the expertise from administration to administration, who have got the experience of having been through all of this before and provide the quality service that needs to be provided.
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We urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this package.