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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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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
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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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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship.
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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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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Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.
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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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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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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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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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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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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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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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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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Study: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare.
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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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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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