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Richard Bruce Cheney (/ˈtʃeɪni/; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Iraq, People, Support, United, Urge

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

Asked, Bush, Electoral, Important, Three, Wyoming

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

Believe, Changed, Disease, Extraordinarily, Heart

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

Iraq, Levels, Provided, Terrorists, Training

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

Attention, Barack, Frankly, Pay, Says

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

Early, Someday, Trouble, Want, Writing

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Needs, Opposite, Opposites, Respect, Significantly, Thinking

We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

Expand, Opportunity, Two, World, Years

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

Als, Global Warming, Gore, Movie, Seen

We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Believe, Folks, Force, Military, Nice, Take

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Customers, Program, Tougher

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.

Easy, Maximum Number, Numbers, People, Problem

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

Opinion, Opinion Polls, Polls, Public, Public Opinion, Thinking

Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9
11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.

Back, Fall, Hit, Mistake, United, War

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Faces, Prepared, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Use

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Call Of Duty, Certain, Good, Lose, Point, Principles

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Foreign, Important, Nsa, States, Strong, Supporter

After 9
11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.

Clear, Strategy, Successful, War, Win, Winning

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.

Hell, Intolerant, Left, Mean, Texas

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.

Cities, Ideas, Middle, Real, Weapon

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