Top 100 Cheney Quotes
#1. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.
Edward Snowden
#2. 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
#3. The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Craig Bruce
#4. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney
#5. I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.
Dick Cheney
#6. 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.
Dick Cheney
#7. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen
Dick Cheney
#8. Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.
Craig Ferguson
#9. When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,
Dick Cheney
#10. I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.
Mark Hamill
#11. Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.
Terri Cheney
#12. Other times, we dads are presented as the "enforcer" Vice President, the Dick Cheney.
Jim Gaffigan
#14. 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.
Dick Cheney
#15. If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.
Dick Cheney
#16. Trust is as fragile as fairies' wings and almost as hard to find.
Terri Cheney
#17. Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
Dick Cheney
#18. In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Dick Cheney
#19. I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.
Dick Cheney
#20. Sometimes, the f***ing you get just ain't worth the f***ing you get.
Anne Cheney
#21. Think about someone, such as a teacher who may have inspired you. Their care and love must have shone through. That is the reason to follow those who set a good example of life.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#22. I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn't the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing.
Terri Cheney
#23. You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
Dick Cheney
#24. Buddy Holly was the geekiest looking guy in the world, but he had some really rockin tunes.
Chris Cheney
#25. I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.
Dick Cheney
#26. Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.
Sonia Rumzi
#27. 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.
Dick Cheney
#28. Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
Dick Cheney
#29. I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
Dick Cheney
#30. 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
#31. When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
Ed Gillespie
#32. I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.
Dick Cheney
#33. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
Ron Suskind
#34. I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
Lynne Cheney
#35. If you nurture it long enough, a lie can become a life.
Terri Cheney
#36. From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.
Hillary Clinton
#37. From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney
#38. I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.
Dick Cheney
#39. I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
Mary Cheney
#40. Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.
Dick Cheney
#41. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Edward Snowden
#42. Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.
Dick Cheney
#43. 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
#44. Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.
Dick Cheney
#45. I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
Dick Cheney
#46. 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.
Dick Cheney
#47. One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
Viggo Mortensen
#48. Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.
Terri Cheney
#49. Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
Mary Cheney
#50. I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.
Susan Carroll
#51. I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
Mary Cheney
#52. If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!
Neil Cavuto
#53. I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
Mary Cheney
#54. But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.
Terri Cheney
#55. I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.
Liz Cheney
#56. The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.
Elliott Abrams
#57. Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
Alec Baldwin
#58. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.
Terri Cheney
#59. The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy.
Stephen Schneider
#60. It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
Dick Cheney
#61. His eyes narrowed. "Is this where the elephants come in? Because there was something about elephants in that French book.
J. Kathleen Cheney
#62. 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
#63. Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
Adam McKay
#64. The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
Dick Cheney
#65. The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
John Vance Cheney
#66. The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Ted Olson
#67. 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
#68. I don't think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.
Dick Cheney
#69. I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.
Dick Cheney
#70. Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?
David Letterman
#71. I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Mary Cheney
#72. I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.
Jon Stewart
#73. Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
Dick Cavett
#74. Love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.
Terri Cheney
#75. Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!
Jesse Ventura
#76. 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
#77. Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
Dick Cheney
#78. From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and everyone within bribing distance of the 2008 election (Hillary, McCain, Giuliani) are lousy on the Bill of Rights, too.
Matt Welch
#79. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)
Jesse Ventura
#80. I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.
Dick Cheney
#81. You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.
Tommy Chong
#82. Tesla, at least, seemed perfectly satisfied with what he had achieved in Colorado. He had made lightning dance at his command; he had used the whole Earth as a piece of laboratory equipment; and he had received messages from the stars. Now he was in a hurry to get on with the future.
Margaret Cheney
#83. I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.
Dick Cheney
#84. I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.
Dick Cheney
#85. For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.
Robin Givhan
#86. I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels:
Terri Cheney
#87. Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Dick Cheney
#88. Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
Mary Cheney
#89. My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators ... I think it will go relatively quickly, ... [in] weeks rather than months.
Dick Cheney
#90. Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You're a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.
Molly Harper
#91. I have never written anything sexually explicit,
Lynne Cheney
#92. Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.
John Vance Cheney
#93. John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Mary Cheney
#94. In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
Dick Cheney
#95. The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
Timothy Noah
#96. The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
Dick Cheney
#97. A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
Dick Cheney
#98. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history ... On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.
Tomas Young
#99. Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
Mary Cheney
#100. Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for
but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
Hunter S. Thompson
