Dick Cheney Quotes

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.

There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

Terrorize your enemy!

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

People claimed I refused to play. But that is not true and a complete lie.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.

It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.