Dick Cheney
And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.
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 don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.
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 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.
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.
The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.Collection: President
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.Collection: Principles
We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.Collection: Mean
Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.Collection: Real
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.Collection: Writing
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.Collection: War
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.Collection: Usa
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.Collection: Wmds In Iraq
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.Collection: Thinking
We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two.Collection: Army
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.Collection: Oil
Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.Collection: Remember
It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.Collection: Men
I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.Collection: Stupid
I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.Collection: Worship
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.Collection: Iraq
Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.Collection: Matter
The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.Collection: Issues
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.Collection: Osama Bin Laden
Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Strong
We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.Collection: President
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.Collection: Jobs
I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.Collection: Fun
I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.Collection: Thinking
I think freedom means freedom for everybody.Collection: Mean
Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.Collection: Genocide
The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.Collection: Iraq
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.Collection: Order
Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.Collection: War
I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.Collection: Military
Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.Collection: Defense
It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.Collection: Iraq
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.Collection: Years
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.Collection: Understanding
After 9/11 we were prepared to use military force. We were prepared to go after not only the terrorists, but those who sponsor terror and provide sanctuary and safe harbor for them. We were prepared to use our intelligence assets the way we would against an enemy that threatened the United States itself, to put in place, for example, things like the Terror Surveillance Program and to have a robust interrogation program on detainees. Those are the acts you take when you feel you're at war and that the very existence of the nation is threatened.Collection: War
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.Collection: Thinking
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.Collection: War
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.Collection: Stupid