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America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

Fred Thompson

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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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John McCain was a prisoner of war.
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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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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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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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I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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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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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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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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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.
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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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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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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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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up
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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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