Dick Cheney: Interviews & Speeches: Transcripts & Citations

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The following are transcripts and citations for interviews and speeches by Dick Cheney.

2001

• Transcript: "Dick Cheney Discusses the Seattle Earthquake, Iraq and the Career of Bernie Shaw," Inside Politics/CNN, February 28, 2001.
• "The Vice President Appears on NBC's Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, WhiteHouse.gov, December 9, 2001.

2002

• Transcript of Interview with Vice-President Dick Cheney on Meet the Press, September 8, 2002.
• Interview with Dick Cheney: Part I: "discusses the effects of Sept. 11 on America, the threat of al-Qaida, and the status of the war on terrorism" and Part II: "discusses the threat posed by Iraq and the possibility of military action against Saddam Hussein. He also adds his personal reflections on the events of Sept. 11," PBS Online NewsHour, September 9, 2002.

2003

• Transcript: Meet the Press with Tim Russert, NBC News/MSNBC, March 16, 2003.
• "Cakewalk," Salon, March 28, 2003.
• Wolf Blitzer, "Did the Bush Administration exaggerate the threat from Iraq?" CNN, July 8, 2003.
• Transcript: Meet the Press with Tim Russert, NBC News/MSNBC, September 14, 2003; also posted by Washington Post.
• Anne E. Kornblut and Bryan Bender, "Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged," Boston Globe, September 16, 2003.
• "Cheney Reasserts Already Debunked Atta–Iraq Connection," Democracy Now!, September 16, 2003.
• Transcript: Remarks at the 2003 Air Force Association National Convention, Washington, DC, September 17, 2003.
• Transcript: "Cheney Says Pre-emption Needed to Thwart Terrorism." (Vice president addresses Air Force Association September 17, 2003).
• "Cheney's Halliburton Ties Remain. Contrary To Veep's Claims, Researchers Say Financial Links Remain," CBS News/Associated Press, September 26, 2003.

2004

• Juan Williams, "Cheney: U.S. to Continue Search for Iraqi WMD. Vice President Also Cites Al Qaeda-Saddam Connection," Morning Addition/NPR, January 22, 2004.
• "Vice President Cheney Participates in Radio Interview" (Telephonic) with Rush Limbaugh, WhiteHouse.gov, March 22, 2004.
• Joe Connelly, "In the Northwest: Bush-Cheney flip-flops cost America in blood," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 29, 2004.

2005

• "Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says," CNN, June 20, 2005.

2006

• Transcript: "Newsmaker: Vice President Dick Cheney," PBS Online NewsHour, February 7, 2006.
• Jane Roh, "Cheney: 'I'm the Guy Who Pulled the Trigger'," Fox News, February 15, 2006.
• "Exclusive Interview With V.P. Dick Cheney," Special Report with Brit Hume, February 15, 2006, Fox News, February 16, 2006. Also posted by Associated Press (San Francisco Chronicle), February 15, 2006.
• Transcript: Meet the Press with Tim Russert, NBC News/MSNBC, September 10, 2006.
• Juan Williams, "Cheney: Iraq Handover Has 'A Long Way to Go'," Morning Edition/NPR, October 25, 2006.

2007

• Transcript: "Vice President Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday'," Fox News, January 14, 2007.
• SilentPatriot, "Cheney Spars with Blitzer Over Criticism of Iraq, Mary’s Pregnancy," Crooks and Liars, January 24, 2007.
• "Cheney: Talk of blunders in Iraq is 'hogwash'," CNN, January 25, 2007.
• Peter Baker, "Defending Iraq War, Defiant Cheney Cites 'Enormous Successes'," Washington Post, January 25, 2007.
• Mark Silva, "Cheney: 'I'm the vice president, and they're not'," The Swamp/Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2007.

Other Quotes

• "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."—Cheney, during the Vice Presidential Debate, October 5, 2004. [1] [2]

• "We know (Saddam Hussein)'s been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."—Cheney on ­ Meet the Press, March 16, 2003.

• "And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many."—Cheney, at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, August 1992. [3]

• "I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq."—Cheney at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991. (archive.org)