Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.” ~ Dick Cheney [Richard Bruce Cheney] (1941- ) Vice President of the United StatesSource: False. The quote is paraphrased by Ron Suskind on PBS "Frontline" as to Cheney's intentions for responding to the 9-11 attackhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/etc/script.html