Dick Cheney Quotes

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

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

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.

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

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques.

Direct threats require decisive action.

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.

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.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

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

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

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.

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.

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

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

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.

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.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

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.