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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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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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Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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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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I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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