EMM News Explorer: Dick Cheney

[said:]: There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, against us.

csmonitor 22-DEC-11

[-said]: The Islamic Republic of Iran… can give a crushing response and cut off hands of anyone who wants to violate its air, navy and land borders.

dailymail 16-DEC-11

[-said]: The right response would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down,

palestinechronicle 15-DEC-11

[-said]: For us to go in and take out the drone that crashed would have been, I think, a fairly simple operation, and it would have denied them the value of intelligence they can collect by having that aircraft,

CBSnews 14-DEC-11

[-said]: I don't see anything that's been done by this administration that's going to stop that program,

CBSnews 14-DEC-11

[-said]: and the Iranians said no.

CBSnews 14-DEC-11

[-said]: The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,

ABCnews 13-DEC-11

[-said]: The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,\

ettelaat 13-DEC-11

[-said]: But he didn’t take any of the options. He asked nicely for them to return it. And they aren’t going to do that,

ABCnews 13-DEC-11

[-said]: OutFront

ABCnews 13-DEC-11

[-also said]: You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick airstrike, and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.

usaToday 13-DEC-11

[also said:]: I was told that the president had three options on his desk. He rejected all of them.

usaToday 13-DEC-11

[-tells]: not perfect by any means, but they clearly are much better off than when Saddam Hussein was in charge.

news 13-DEC-11

[replied:]: Thank you.

news 05-DEC-11

[-replied]: policies in Iraq are disgusting.

news 05-DEC-11

[replied:]: Oh yeah, big time.

cnn 09-NOV-11

[-told]: I think what we've heard now are a lot of accusations. Not a lot of facts,

CBSnews 06-NOV-11

[-argued]: With all due respect, the American people are out there afraid,

CBSnews 06-NOV-11

[-said]: Well, we were never torturing anyone in the first place,

usaToday 03-OCT-11

[-told]: I think it was a very good strike. I think it was justified,

cnn 03-OCT-11

[-said]: clearly ... moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is justified,

cnn 03-OCT-11

[ said]: If you’ve got the president of the United States out there saying we overreacted to 9/11 on our watch, that’s not good,

rt 03-OCT-11

[ added]: I think they need to go back and reconsider what the president said when he was in Cairo,

rt 03-OCT-11

[-tells]: The thing I’m waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for ‘overreacting’ to the events of 9/11,

rt 03-OCT-11

[-said]: I think what we've seen is the administration, the Obama administration, has clearly reached the point where they've agreed they need to be tough and aggressive in defending the nation and using some of the same techniques that the Bush administration did. And they need, as I say, to go back and reconsider some of the criticisms they offered about our policies over the past years,

upi 02-OCT-11

[-said]: I do think this was a good strike. I think the president ought to have that kind of authority to order that kind of strike, even when it involves an American citizen when there is clear evidence that he's part of al-Qaida, planning, cooperating and supporting attacks against the United States,

upi 02-OCT-11

[-argued]: in effect said that we had walked away from (America's) ideals,

cnn 02-OCT-11

[-said]: He said in his Cairo speech, for example, that he had, quote, banned torture,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-added]: They in effect said that we had walked away from our ideals, or taken policy contrary to our ideals when we had enhanced interrogation techniques,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-said]: It is different between a law enforcement action and a war,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-said]: The thing I'm waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago, when they criticized us for, quote, overreacting to the events of 9/11,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-said]: What he said then was inaccurate especially in light of what they're now doing with respect to policy,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-said]: I think the president ought to have that kind of authority to order that kind of strike, even when it involves an American citizen,

usaToday 02-OCT-11

[-said]: Well, I think it was a very good strike. I think it was justified,

news 02-OCT-11

[-noted]: They in effect said we had walked away from our ideals, or taking policy contrary to our ideals when we had enhanced interrogation techniques. TheyÂ have clearly moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is justified. In this case, it was. But I think they need to go back and reconsider what the president said in Cairo.

news 02-OCT-11

[-said]: The thing I am waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for, quote, overreacting to the events of 9/11,

news 02-OCT-11

[-told]: I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one

cnn 02-OCT-11

[-told]: When you're in a political campaign and debates, people boo a lot of things,

cnn 02-OCT-11

[-recently told]: Should the president reinstate enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding? Well I certainly would advocate it,

CBC 27-SEP-11

[ said]: Now we have a lot of people running around using language like ‘torture.’ I heard one of your members of Parliament saying we used it on hundreds of people at Guantanamo. Not true,

theglobeandmail 27-SEP-11

[-recently told]: Should the president re-instate enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding? Well I certainly would advocate it,

CBC 27-SEP-11

[ said]: Today, in Iraq, there is a democratically elected government, no Saddam Hussein, no weapons of mass destruction, he hasn’t started any wars in the Gulf, and he hasn’t been slaughtering his own people,

theglobeandmail 27-SEP-11

[-said]: My sense of it is that 3,000 is not enough, that you want more than that if you are going to have any kind of a significant capability,

voanews 20-SEP-11

[-admitted]: I am very concerned about that,

voanews 20-SEP-11

[-said]: No, I just thought Bob, that the Democrats ought to have as much fun on their side as we are having on our side figuring out who is going to run,

CBSnews 18-SEP-11

[-told]: Well, I thought (that comment) was appropriate under the circumstances,

CBSnews 18-SEP-11

[-said]: I said some very nice things about President Bush because I thought he was an effective president. I thought he was very good in terms of making very bold, very tough decisions. And so I was satisfied with the response,

CBSnews 18-SEP-11

[said that:]: you have to deal with the world the way you find it.

news 13-SEP-11

[-told]: I think Iran represents an existential threat, and (Israel) will do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security,

jnewswire 13-SEP-11

[-mentions]: In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,

yediotaharonot 12-SEP-11

[-said]: I think Iran represents an existential threat, and they'll do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security,

jpost 12-SEP-11

[-told]: Angel was next,

cnn 12-SEP-11

[-told]: Iran represents an existential threat, and [the Israelis] will do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security,

trendnews 12-SEP-11

[-said]: enhanced interrogation

dawn 11-SEP-11

[-confirms]: In My Time.

watchingamerica 07-SEP-11

[has said that:]: In My Time

newschannel5 05-SEP-11

[-said]: I was a staunch advocate of the … terrorist surveillance program and enhanced interrogation techniques out of the deep conviction on my part that we badly needed those to succeed in the war on terror,

upi 05-SEP-11

[-said]: Well, that's news to me,

upi 05-SEP-11

[-says]: There were also some things we failed to anticipate. Based on intelligence reports, we believed we would be able to rely on the Iraqi police to keep the peace and prove security. That turned out not to be true. The Iraqi police were among the least trusted, most infiltrated institutions in Iraqi society. We also thought that once we removed the top Baathists leaders from Saddam's government, we'd be able to get things up and running relatively quickly, but we discovered that many people were so accustomed t

newschannel5 05-SEP-11

[-said]: Boy, I am not sure I would have ever said that,

news 04-SEP-11

[-writes]: It's not Guantanamo that does the harm, it is the critics of the facility who peddle falsehoods about it,

chinadaily 02-SEP-11

[-told]: thick skin,

news 02-SEP-11

[-added]: I've never heard that adequately explained. ... I'd like to know more about that,

npr 02-SEP-11

[-wrote]: Rice realized sometime later that she had made a major mistake by issuing a public apology,

latimes 01-SEP-11

[-writes]: It’s not Guantanamo that does the harm, it is the critics of the facility who peddle falsehoods about it,

tribune 01-SEP-11

[-suggests]: I do think they fall into the category of cheap shots.

latimes 01-SEP-11

[-says]: I think it's going to do well,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[wrote:]: I have tremendous respect for Prime Minister Blair. He is a Labour party liberal and I am a conservative Republican , and we didn't always agree on strategy or tactics.

independent 31-AUG-11

[ said]: At the request of the British, I had called a number of the , including Iain Duncan Smith , the Conservative leader,

independent 31-AUG-11

[-wrote]: We thoroughly discussed the pros and cons,

latimes 31-AUG-11

[replies:]: He's fallen far short of what he said he was going to do vis a vis the economy.

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-says]: I think we've made progress, I guess is the way I'd put it,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-says]: I think he's going to have a tough time — one man's opinion,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[ says]: I worry about that,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-says]: It's not clear to me what the administration would do were they to capture a high-value target tomorrow,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-wrote]: When the president came on the line, I told him that the Pentagon had been hit and urged him to stay away from Washington,

latimes 31-AUG-11

[-says]: I'm reluctant to endorse a strategy for fear it might discourage somebody from adopting it,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-says]: I read all those reports,

usaToday 31-AUG-11

[-wrote]: approved my recommendation that [American fighter jets] be authorized to fire on a civilian airliner if it had been hijacked and would not divert,

latimes 31-AUG-11

[-wrote]: When the president came on the line, I told him about the shootdown order,

latimes 31-AUG-11

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