Dick Cheney Quotes

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

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.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

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.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

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

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

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

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Direct threats require decisive action.

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

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.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

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.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques.

Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don't think she passed that test.

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

We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

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.

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.