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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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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
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Freddie Dalton Thompson
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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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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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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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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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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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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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