Dick Cheney Quotes

"In both of these cases, these measures came up under suspended rules"

"has a direct bearing on the quality of the administration that follows it."

"The party's united. Our purpose is clear. Our cause is just,"

"I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing."

"The terrorists came to believe that they could strike America without paying any price,"

"because he didn't like their intelligence reports."

"I had communications with the president, communications with the Pentagon, Secret Service and so forth. And we could continue to operate there, and if I left, I'd lose all that,"

"We still have, I think, a society where we haven't done enough yet to live up to that standard that we'd all like to live up to, I think, in terms of equality of opportunity, that we judge people as individuals. As Martin Luther King said, we ought to judge people on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. I would hope that we can continue to make progress in that regard in the years ahead."

"This is the good part of the speech,"

"[In addition,] younger workers are understandably concerned about whether Social Security will be around when they need it, ... This is more than a problem to be solved. It's also an opportunity."

"supporting the status quo, because we thought the status quo would bring us security and would bring us stability. Sept. 11 just changed that in a way that's irreversible for us."

"Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics,"

"Direct threats require decisive action."

"We realize that Congress will work its will, ... A legislative process will move forward here. We intend to work with Congress to perfect the bill as it unfolds here."

"He will, as he said he would, consult widely with our Congress, with our friends and allies around the world."

"helping to frame the most important debate of the post-9/11 era."

"Part of the problem here is that instead of having a substantive debate over important substantive policy issues, he had challenged my integrity, and I didn't like that. But most of all I didn't like the fact that after he'd done so, then he wanted to act like everything was peaches and cream."

"We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency."

"but we're also going to want new talent. We're going to want to emphasize diversity. We're going to want a broad Cabinet."

"Yet there is no doubt of our nation's strength. This is a tribute above all to the American worker and entrepreneur ... productivity in the past four quarters has been very impressive. Higher productivity, of course, leads to wage increases and even greater investment and even more jobs down the line,"