Dick Cheney
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It is a wartime situation, and it does require tough programs and policies if you're going to be successful.
And it was more important to be successful than it was to be loved.
Are you going to trade the lives of a number of people because you want to preserve your honor?
Or are you going to do your job, do what's required, first and foremost your responsibility to safeguard the United States of America and the lives of its citizens?
not given a choice between doing what we did or backing off and say, yeah, we know you know their next attack against the United States, but we're not gonna force you to tell us what it is because it might create a bad image for us.
That's not a close call for me.