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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.
Fred Thompson
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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
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Former United States Senator
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Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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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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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.
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In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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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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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.
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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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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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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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