In a lecture at the American Enterprise Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C., on December 8, 1993, former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We have turned inward as a nation and signed on to the proposition that the only truly important matters on the public policy agenda are domestic issues… It is more important than ever that our president be a foreign-policy president, that he be actively engaged in the business of shaping world events, that national security issues be right at the top of our national agenda, and that we constantly remind ourselves that peace and freedom in the world will continue to depend upon U.S. leadership backed up by U.S. military capability.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 259