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Dick Cheney

Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 (1941–2025)

  • Fame69.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia124.1K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1941–2025, aged 84United States
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    98 languages
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  • Era
    1941–2025
    Aged 84
  • Known for
    An Inconvenient Sequel…
    2017
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

George W. Bush's vice president from 2001 to 2009, Cheney redefined the office by driving policy from behind the scenes — most notably as the principal advocate for invading Iraq on claims of weapons of mass destruction that were never found.

Biography

About

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 30, 1941, Richard Bruce Cheney grew up in Casper, Wyoming, left Yale, and earned his political science degrees from the University of Wyoming before interning for a congressman and climbing into the Nixon and Ford White Houses. He served as Gerald Ford's chief of staff from 1975 to 1977, then represented Wyoming in the U.S. House from 1979 to 1989 before George H. W. Bush appointed him Secretary of Defense — a post he held through Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Out of office during the Clinton years, he chaired Halliburton and left with a $33.7 million pac…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney
said
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)
Dick Cheney
said
We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
— Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003
Dick Cheney
said
We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.
— Interview on NBC (September 16, 2001)
Dick Cheney
said
The suggestion that somehow, because this was a close election, we should fundamentally change our beliefs I just think is silly.
— CBS News program Face the Nation (December 2000)
Dick Cheney
said
Oil remains fundamentally a government business.
— Speech delivered at the London Institute of Petroleum, 1999
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Source confidence65.0
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence