“The suggestion that somehow, because this was a close election, we should fundamentally change our beliefs I just think is silly.”

—  Dick Cheney

CBS News program Face the Nation http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/us/43rd-president-vice-president-elect-cheney-says-bush-administration-will-move.html (December 2000)
2000s

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