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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
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Former United States Senator
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Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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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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