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John Vance Cheney

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BARBARA CHENEY No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think o...
DICK CHENEY You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's bankin...
DICK CHENEY The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
MARY CHENEY The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that require...
DICK CHENEY The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regi...
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DICK CHENEY I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama admin...
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DICK CHENEY It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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DICK CHENEY Direct threats require decisive action.
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DICK CHENEY I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce...
DICK CHENEY I am a deficit hawk.
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DICK CHENEY I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most contr...
DICK CHENEY I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful ...
DICK CHENEY From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being s...
DICK CHENEY It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
MARY CHENEY It's another in the long series of the no-news-is-good-news story about inflation.
BILL CHENEY I don't think the Fed is under pressure to raise rates faster than they have been but I think they'd...
BILL CHENEY There really is no inflation problem right now, and there's certainly nothing in the pipeline, with ...
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BILL CHENEY We're still several months away from job growth catching up with labor force growth and driving the ...
BILL CHENEY The good news for workers is that productivity growth cannot continue at this pace. Demand will tran...
BILL CHENEY [Friday's report] probably reduces the odds of the Fed making another move [at its next meeting]. Th...
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BILL CHENEY It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We'v...
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LIZ CHENEY I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
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DICK CHENEY When you have your teammates doing their jobs, and you don't do yours, it's not fair to them.
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DICK CHENEY I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, an...
DICK CHENEY A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a ...
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DICK CHENEY The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every adv...
DICK CHENEY [Approving gay marriage is the correct and moral thing to do, even if the country isn't ready for it...
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DICK CHENEY What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.
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DICK CHENEY We're making significant progress.
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DICK CHENEY The positive news is we appear to be making progress,
DICK CHENEY I cannot put a cost figure on it,
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DICK CHENEY I don't consider myself a liberal or not,
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DICK CHENEY [Cheney told NBC on Sept. 14, 2003, that he didn't know who sent Wilson on a mission to Niger to exp...
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TODD CHENEY They disavowed their own bipartisan Medicare commission,
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DICK CHENEY They're all climbing the ladder (toward a state championship).
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MARY CHENEY He's signed up to it. ... It's not been enforced or complied with.
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DICK CHENEY last chance for diplomacy.
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DICK CHENEY otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard.
DICK CHENEY That is a fair summary of the problem, ... and it came from Senator Joseph Lieberman.
DICK CHENEY We're going to have a meeting tomorrow, ... The president's summoned the relevant Cabinet and agency...
DICK CHENEY revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.
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RICHARD CHENEY We're delighted to have this opportunity to begin to receive official support from the federal gover...
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RICHARD CHENEY We will move as rapidly as we can to have a Cabinet in place by the time of the inauguration.
RICHARD CHENEY Its stated policy,
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BILL CHENEY Yet there is no doubt of our nation's strength. This is a tribute above all to the American worker a...
DICK CHENEY Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and a...
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DICK CHENEY The hostesses in the '50s were hip to that.
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DICK CHENEY He's a good man, a man of generous instincts and high standards, ... Yesterday he said goodbye to hi...
DICK CHENEY is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.
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DICK CHENEY You only truly believe that which moves you to action.
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DICK CHENEY Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.
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