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Fred Thompson Inspirational Quotes (46)

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Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
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This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
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I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
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The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.
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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up
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That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law
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Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC
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The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.
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If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution
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This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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