Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Interview with Rocky Mountain News, January 2004, 2004

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.

Vice Presidential Debate October 5, 2004, 2004

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. And that makes the whole thing mutual — America sees two John Kerrys.

Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention. - Video and text available. (1 September 2004), 2004

You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.

Remarks on Paul O'Neill (January 9, 2004), 2004

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years...we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

Lester Holt interview, MSNBC, March 2, 2004 whitehouse.archives.gov, 2004

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction."..."We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems — ballistic missiles — that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

Speech at a Fundraising dinner in New Mexico, (February 16, 2004), 2004

Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.

Speaking about the choice Americans would soon make in the presidential election at a Des Moines, Iowa campaign appearance on September 7, 2004 whitehouse.archives.gov., 2004

If we’re successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it’s not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it’s not a safe haven for terrorists, now 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.

Meet The Press with Tim Russert. (September. 14, 2003), 2003

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003, 2003

My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators.

Meet The Press with Tim Russert. (March 16, 2003), 2003

[In response to "Reconstituted nuclear weapons. You misspoke."] Yeah. I did misspeak. I said repeatedly during the show weapons capability. We never had any evidence that he had acquired a nuclear weapon.

Meet The Press with Tim Russert. (Sept. 14, 2003), 2003

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.

Speech delivered at the London Institute of Petroleum, 1999, 1999

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.

Speech delivered at the Cato Institute, (June 23, 1998), 1998

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

Remarks after introducing a legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil to soar by billions of dollars per year October 1986, 1986

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

Remarks during the 1976 US Presidential election as quoted in "Nixon's empire strikes back" by Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian (9 June 2005), 1976