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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson
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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
Actor
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Former United States Senator
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Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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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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While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
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I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.
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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
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Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
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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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We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
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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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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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