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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
Actor
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Former United States Senator
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Sheffield
Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
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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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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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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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You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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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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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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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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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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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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