Quote by Dick Cheney
You cant fall back on the private sector and say, You take care of

You cant fall back on the private sector and say, You take care of the nations banking system. Thats a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. – Dick Cheney

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From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that were engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. – Dick Cheney

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War
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The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And its a global operation. It doesnt know national boundaries or national borders. – Dick Cheney

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Home
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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. – Dick Cheney

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Wisdom
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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Government

Government is force, pure and simple. Theres no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. – Harry Browne

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Government

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. – John Locke

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Government

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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Government

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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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I do engineering, not religion. – Daniel J. Bernstein

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Poetry

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens

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Men