Dick Cheney Quotes
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.
Cheney, Dick. "Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address." Republican National Convention, 1 Sept. 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York.
The statement was somewhat over the top considering that the Senate at the time contained some of the most decorated of American war heroes, while Mr. Bush’s involvement in the defense of the people was a short training stint in the Texas Air National Guard.
“Ministers” in England are the members of Parliament who are party leaders of the majority party and members of the cabinet. The Prime Minister is also a member of Parliament unlike America where the executive officers are not members of Congress and we have separation of powers. In England, the executive branch, the legislature and the Supreme Court are all members of Parliament.
She was a nondescript minor functionary in a Tea Party Active Southern County, and her hatred of the Black president was hardly noteworthy. What makes this an important quotation is that it was frequently shown to foreigners who really did not understand the great degree of freedom of speech. Here a public official being paid by the government, not only calls for the removal of a sitting president, but also openly asked the army to rebel against their commander in chief. She was not punished, nor even arrested or tried. She was not even dismissed from her elected government job. That was up to the voters in the next election. There likely is no other country in the world where that can happen.
This point of view is contentious in that many people (usually those at the extreme left and extreme right) think that the intention of the founding fathers was to avoid a single executive from starting a war unilaterally. Congress was given the power to declare war—not the president. Arguably public opinion is reflected by Congress, but going to war, when public opinion has been opposed to it has always turned out badly in American History.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Louis Napoleon was running for the President of the new revolutionary government. Because he had been the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, he had been banned from France but returned after the 1848 revolution. His speech appears, in retrospect, ridiculous since within a year from his election, he would declare himself Emperor after engineering a coup and taking over the entire government.
Richard Bruce Cheney is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under George W. Bush. He has been cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. He is also one of the most unpopular American politicians, holding an approval rating of just 13% upon leaving office. Cheney has been the oldest living former U.S. vice president since 2021, following the death of Walter Mondale.
