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If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
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Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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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We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.
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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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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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I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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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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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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