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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

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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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Politician
Radio Personality
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Sheffield
Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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 think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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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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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.
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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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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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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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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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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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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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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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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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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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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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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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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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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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