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A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

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Fred Thompson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 19
Died: 2015
Died: November 1
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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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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.
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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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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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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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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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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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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.
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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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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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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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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC
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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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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 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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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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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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