Dick Cheney Quotes

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

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.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

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

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

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

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

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

We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

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.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

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.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.

I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

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.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

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.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

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

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?