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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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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
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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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You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
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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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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'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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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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We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.
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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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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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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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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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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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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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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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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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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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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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