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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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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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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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I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
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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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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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