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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
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Former United States Senator
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Alabama
Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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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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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.
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Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
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