Exceptional Quotes

“We are, as a matter of empirical fact and undeniable history, the greatest force for good the world has ever known.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“We have guaranteed freedom, security, and peace for a larger share of humanity than has any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“A system that attempted to extinguish the human spirit, innovation, freedom, and individualism could not survive. A governing theory that required force to keep its citizens under its control would eventually crumble.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive. The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world—and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own Nation.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“President Obama has diminished American power and retreated from the field of battle, fueling rising threats against our nation. He has pursued a foreign policy built on appeasing our adversaries, abandoning our allies, and apologizing for America.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Who does not feel a growing sense of unease as our allies, facing repeated instances of an amateurish and confused administration, reluctantly conclude that America is unwilling or unable to fulfill its obligations as leader of the free world? Who does not feel rising alarm when the question in any discussion of foreign policy is no longer, “Should we do something?” but “Do we have the capacity to do anything?”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Speaking to the nation on October 22, 1962, Kennedy reminded his audience, “The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“There was a dream that men could one day speak their thoughts. There was a hope that men could stroll through the streets unafraid. There was a prayer that each could speak to his own God. That dream, that hope, that prayer became America.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“intelligence also suspected Iraqi involvement with the”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

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― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, offered this view as he was leaving his post: When asked if the terrorists were on the run, we couldn’t respond with any answer but “no.” When asked if the terrorists were defeated, we had to say “no.” Anyone who answers yes to either of those questions either doesn’t know what they are talking about, they are misinformed, or they are flat out lying.”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America

“Warsaw fell on September 27. The last Polish force was defeated on October 6. The”
― Dick Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America