Dick Cheney > Quotes

“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
― Dick Cheney

“People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job?”
― Dick Cheney

“We are, as a matter of empirical fact and undeniable history, the greatest force for good the world has ever known.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Go fuck yourself!”
― Dick Cheney

“If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive. The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world—and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own Nation.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“A system that attempted to extinguish the human spirit, innovation, freedom, and individualism could not survive. A governing theory that required force to keep its citizens under its control would eventually crumble.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“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 considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.”
― Dick Cheney

“We have guaranteed freedom, security, and peace for a larger share of humanity than has any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“President Obama has diminished American power and retreated from the field of battle, fueling rising threats against our nation. He has pursued a foreign policy built on appeasing our adversaries, abandoning our allies, and apologizing for America.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“In Detroit, Dr. Forest Dodrill, a surgeon at Wayne State University, collaborated with engineers at General Motors Research to develop a mechanical pump capable of supporting the circulation of an adult. The resulting stainless-steel and glass device, the Dodrill-GMR mechanical heart pump, had multiple cylinders from which blood circulated and, perhaps not surprisingly, bore an uncanny resemblance to a Cadillac V-12 automobile engine. The device was intended to temporarily replace either the right or left ventricle and was first used in 1952 to support a patient for fifty minutes while Dr. Dodrill repaired a mitral valve.”
― Dick Cheney, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

“Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.”
― Dick Cheney

“I didn't mean to shoot him. I really didn't!”
― Dick Cheney

“The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States.”
― Dick Cheney

“Speaking to the nation on October 22, 1962, Kennedy reminded his audience, “The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“the artery supplying the front (anterior) wall of Cheney’s heart, the left anterior descending (LAD), did not have significant narrowing. Absent a significant blockage in that critical vessel, sometimes indelicately called “the widowmaker,” bypass surgery is usually no better than medical therapy in improving survival.”
― Dick Cheney, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

“I still consider Dr. Davis’s reminder that “hard work never killed anyone” some of the finest medical advice I have ever received. I believe it sustained me through my four subsequent heart attacks and the numerous other cardiac challenges I faced as I pursued my career in public service. For that, I will always be grateful.”
― Dick Cheney, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

“Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, offered this view as he was leaving his post: When asked if the terrorists were on the run, we couldn’t respond with any answer but “no.” When asked if the terrorists were defeated, we had to say “no.” Anyone who answers yes to either of those questions either doesn’t know what they are talking about, they are misinformed, or they are flat out lying.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“My daughter Liz is NOT a worthless piece of shit, a goddamned turd, or what-have-you!”
― Dick Cheney

“Who does not feel a growing sense of unease as our allies, facing repeated instances of an amateurish and confused administration, reluctantly conclude that America is unwilling or unable to fulfill its obligations as leader of the free world? Who does not feel rising alarm when the question in any discussion of foreign policy is no longer, “Should we do something?” but “Do we have the capacity to do anything?”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Warsaw fell on September 27. The last Polish force was defeated on October 6. The”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“I had other priorities!”
― Dick Cheney

“Defense”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“There was a dream that men could one day speak their thoughts. There was a hope that men could stroll through the streets unafraid. There was a prayer that each could speak to his own God. That dream, that hope, that prayer became America.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“intelligence also suspected Iraqi involvement with the”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America