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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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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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Sheffield
Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.
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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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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 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, 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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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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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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Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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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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