“You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.”

—  Dick Cheney

Remarks on Paul O'Neill http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml (January 9, 2004)
2000s, 2004

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