Quotes About Dick Cheney

#1. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.

Edward Snowden

#2. I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

Mark Hamill

#3. Other times, we dads are presented as the "enforcer" Vice President, the Dick Cheney.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. 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

#5. If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Neil Cavuto

#6. 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

#7. Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

Adam McKay

#8. 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

#9. I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.

Jon Stewart

#10. 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

#11. Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!

Jesse Ventura

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You're a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.

Molly Harper

#15. 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

#16. No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.

David Letterman

#17. The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

Maureen Dowd

#18. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Nicholas Kristof

#19. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

#20. I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

Barbra Streisand

#21. The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

Barton Gellman

#22. The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Helen Thomas

#23. When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

Jeff Greenfield

#24. I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

Mo Rocca

#25. I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

Rand Paul

#26. Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced.

Glenn Greenwald

#27. Cheesecake. Are you shitting me? Who invented that? Probably Jesus of Nazareth. Or maybe Louis Pasteur. It makes me physically sick to think that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, yet the name of the inventor of cheesecake isn't tattooed on Dick Cheney's face.

Rob Delaney

#28. Ashleigh's a manipulative liar," Jenny said. "She makes Dick Cheney look like Mr. Rogers."
"That is an ugly thing to say about Dick Cheney!" Dr. Goodling snapped. "And my daughter, as well.

J.L. Bryan

#29. In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.

Charlie Savage

#30. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

Patricia Ireland

#31. Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Helen Thomas

#32. Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

Martin Donovan

#33. George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

Peter T. King

#34. Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

Chuck Todd

#35. I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney.

Jerry Stahl

#36. I know he [Richard] went hunting. Maybe well get lucky, and he'll shoot himself in the head. Or maybe a buddy will pull a Dick Cheney.

Karen Metcalf

#37. The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

Conan O'Brien

#38. No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

Mary Matalin

#39. I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Anne Lamott

#40. That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

Nick Flynn

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Dick Cheney

#49. In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Dick Cheney

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

#55. I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Dick Cheney

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.

Ron Suskind

#59. 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

#60. I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

Dick Cheney

#61. 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

#62. Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

Dick Cheney

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

Dick Cheney

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. I don't think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Dick Cheney

#72. I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

Dick Cheney

#73. 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

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

Dick Cheney

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

Dick Cheney

#78. Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Dick Cheney

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Dick Cheney

#82. 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

#83. I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

Dick Cheney

#84. It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon ... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dick Cheney

#85. 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.

Dick Cheney

#86. We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Dick Cheney

#87. I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

Dick Cheney

#88. As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

Dick Cheney

#89. I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

Dick Cheney

#90. You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

Dick Cheney

#91. I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again.

Dick Cheney

#92. I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

Dick Cheney

#93. Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

Dick Cheney

#94. I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

Dick Cheney

#95. Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Dick Cheney

#96. I am a deficit hawk.

Dick Cheney

#97. Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Dick Cheney

#98. I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Dick Cheney

#99. We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

Dick Cheney

#100. The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Dick Cheney