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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

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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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Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
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A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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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The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.
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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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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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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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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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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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I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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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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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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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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