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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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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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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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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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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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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.
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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 are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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