People want to know that their elected officials understand, you know, that the American people know better how to spend their money than the government does.
Liz Cheney
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Liz Cheney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. During her time in Congress, Cheney was known for her strong stance on national security and her opposition to former President Donald Trump, particularly following the events of January 6, 2021, which led to her being removed from her leadership position within the House Republican Conference.
I think conservatives across the country are extremely mobilized. I think you're seeing -- conservatives aren't just Republicans and I think that conservatives are people who believe in limited government.
I think that the vote last night is something that should send a clear message to both parties in that regard.
Well, look, I think that in New York 23, the Republicans, you know, had a pretty chaotic set of circumstances, a pretty chaotic process. The process of selecting the candidate, who was a Republican candidate, that didn't involve frankly…
I wanted to mention also that this morning the Wyoming Stock Growers Association joined the list of fellow farmers and ranchers around this country that are opposed to this bill, and see only increases in their costs of operation as…
Why don't we just say let's place a cap on carbon emissions so the President can go to Copenhagen and say we have placed a cap on our emissions.
I think it is the height of irresponsibility for the president to release those techniques, so that, you know, the terrorists can train to them, and now we have our hands tied.
I have no doubts at all, no reservations and no regrets. And, in fact, I feel that we all owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women at the CIA who carried out this program.
But the president won't let the American people see. He was in the National Archives today, which is the building where these memos are housed. He could have walked up the stairs to the second floor of that building, and, with his pen…
The question that you should be asking is, when a terrorist has information about an attack on the United States, is it the obligation of the president to, within the law, be able to get that information and save American lives?
If you're going to be the transparency president, and if you're going to libel the brave men and women who conducted this program, and if you're going to release information that helps the terrorists, at least you ought to release the…
I don't think that our political system was designed so that, when a party takes power, immediately, the opponents are silenced.
I think that it is a moral obligation to stand up and say, wait a second.
What the president has done is ensure that no future president can use any of these techniques. So, that's a big step. And that's a step that I think really does endanger the country.
But my dad feels very strongly that what the current administration's doing is making the country less safe, dismantling the policies that they put in place after 9/11 that were very much focused on what we needed to do to prevent a future…
Because of that, he feels very strongly that he's got an obligation to speak out.
You know, and I think it's an issue that he doesn't want us to look at too closely, frankly.
I think that when my dad was secretary of defense, it was as the cold war was ending. We clearly were ratcheting back.
I think it's an issue that, you know, deserves discussion, deserves debate. It's an issue that I'm comfortable with what my dad said in Iowa a couple of weeks ago.
You have a consistent record all along of Senator Kerry voting against weapons systems, voting for a nuclear freeze.
I think what President Bush believes is that when you're at war, the issue of money to support the troops... should never be complicated.





