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One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.
Dick Cheney
Will
Past
Worst
Though
Attack
Could
Never
True
Repeated
Just
Act
Now
Thing
Things
Start
We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.
Dick Cheney
Face
Our
Responsibilities
Willing
Must
Be Prepared
Force
Use
Prepared
Necessary
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney
You
Liberty
Easy
Take
Never
Had
Taken
Granted
I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.
Dick Cheney
Words
Think
Consistent
Iraq
Lot
Senator
Them
Describe
Kerry
Position
It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
Dick Cheney
War
Saying
You
Events
Mind
Important
Looking
Big
Before
Back
Criminal
Way
Distinction
Destroy
Pentagon
Between
Go
Very
Handling
American
Did
Blow
Manhattan
Hole
Which
Then
Acres
Act
Keep
Acts
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
Dick Cheney
You
People
World
Result
Sky
Sit
Down
States
Collapsed
Out
Thousands
Thousands Of People
See
Something
Struck
Attacks
Could
No-One
Towers
Trade
Terrorist
Were
Anticipated
Expected
Get
Trying
Being
Center
Planes
Moment
United
Aware
United States
Watched
World Trade
World Trade Center
I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.
Dick Cheney
People
Encouragement
Think
Jobs
Kind
More
Through
Invest
Primarily
Policy
Reagan
Provide
Years
Years Ago
Very
Expand
Effort
Did
Essential
Tax
Tax Policy
Create
Incentives
Businesses
Serious
Thing
Early
Need
Save
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.
Dick Cheney
Hope
Confidence
Respect
People
World
Opportunity
Three
Economic
Economic Policy
Put
Like
Look
Policy
Years
Expand
Offers
Pro-Growth
Going
Place
Them
Next
Businesses
Four
Two
Need
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
Dick Cheney
Mother
Retreats
Forces
Iraqi
Conducting
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.
Dick Cheney
Today
Decision
Power
Control
Would
Hussein
Fact
Had
Almost
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Still
Iraq
Kuwait
Senator
In Fact
Certainly
Belonged
Kerry
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.
Dick Cheney
Time
Me
Vote
Three
Important
Worried
Those
Sign
Out
Carrying
Pretty
About
Percent
He
Votes
Obviously
Although
Because
Around
Got
George
George Bush
Bush
Turned
Asked
Electoral
Last
Last Time
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.
Dick Cheney
Face
Extraordinary
Our
Cities
Weapon
Threat
Absolutely
Idea
Deal
Terrorist
Real
Very
Middle
Convinced
Use
Measures
Now
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
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.
Dick Cheney
Day
Others
Presidents
Oval
Oval Office
Know
Up
Close
Office
Worked
Routine
Thing
Four
Watched
Two
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.
Dick Cheney
Vote
Minority
National
Matters
Hundred
States
Has-Been
Security
He
Been
His
Years
Very
Senate
National Security
Senator
Often
Fortunately
Washington
United
United States
United States Senate
Kerry
I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.
Dick Cheney
Time
Day
You
People
Long
One Day
Kind
Bad
Thousands
Followed
Bad Guys
Case
Guys
Long Period
Leads
Over
Period
Got
Issues
Lot
Up
Get
Bang
Just
Where
Just One
Mean
Them
Worked
Captured
Bin
Awful
Thing
Awful Lot
There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
Dick Cheney
Time
Will
Believe
Every
Back
Spend
States
Further
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Attack
Attacks
Attempted
Miss
Terrible
Because
Got
Tragedy
So Much Time
Against
Us
Much
Next
Reason
Bin
United
United States
No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.
Dick Cheney
You
Will
Think
Tremendous
Back
Severe
Ability
Take
Bounce
Over
Economy
Always
Been
Years
Impressed
Decades
American
Blows
American Economy
Body
Resilience
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.
Dick Cheney
Financial
Try
Free
Think
Took
Sector
Administration
Geared
No Question
Tail
Steps
Question
End
Up
Bush
Bush Administration
Specifically
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.
Dick Cheney
War
You
People
Perspective
Will
Before
Our
Those
Enterprise
Out
Some
Involved
Deal
Terror
Still
Were
Continuing
Campaign
Trying
Engaged
Activities
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
Dick Cheney
Heart
Think
Able
Postponed
Something
Attacks
Hospital
Never
Feel
Because
Five
Survive
Going
To Survive
Right
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.
Dick Cheney
You
Experience
Judge
Political
White
White House
Every
Defense
Others
Tremendous
Secretary
Those
Ten
Ten Years
Like
Liked
House
Obviously
Comfortable
Got
How
Am
Years
Very
Chief
Did
Just
Staff
Whether
Congressman
Why
It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.
Dick Cheney
You
Technology
Together
People
Before
Enough
State
Weapon
Able
Attack
Could
Take
Devastating
Takes
Sophisticated
Very
Used
Large
Many
Even
Now
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
Widespread
Needed
Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.
Dick Cheney
Problems
Party
Own
Think
Our
Easier
Significant
Able
Some
More
Adversaries
Like
Democratic
Attractive
Dealing
Always
Narrow
Bunch
Than
Republican
Republican Party
Public
Them
Agenda
Fun
Based
Portray
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.
Dick Cheney
Time
Seen
Reflect
Think
About
Years
Did
Done
Pause
Washington
No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.
Dick Cheney
Time
Problem
Matter
Will
Kind
Run
Solution
Solutions
More
My Time
Point
Obviously
Always
Been
Up
Any
Where
Used
Now
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
Dick Cheney
Government
Wealth
Own
Way
Sector
Jobs
My Own
Economy
Private
Private Sector
Create
Grow
Belief
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