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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

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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

~Dick Cheney

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We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Against Armed Defend Defense Deploy Down Gotten How Iran Kinds Know Korea Limited Long Long Way Lot Might Missile More Need North North Korea Nuclear Order Possible States Strikes System Take Those United United States Way Work

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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

~Dick Cheney

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I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

~Dick Cheney

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I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

~Dick Cheney

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We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

~Dick Cheney

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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

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I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Businesses Create Did Early Effort Encouragement Essential Expand Incentives Invest Jobs Kind More Need People Policy Primarily Provide Reagan Save Serious Tax Thing Think Through Very Years Years Ago I Think

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We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

~Dick Cheney

Topics: Businesses Confidence Economic Economic Policy Expand Four Going Hope Like Look Need Next Offers Opportunity People Place Policy Put Respect Them Three Two World Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Vice President

Born: January 30th, 1941

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