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John McCain was a prisoner of war.

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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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Freddie Dalton Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson
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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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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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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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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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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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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
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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 think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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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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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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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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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.
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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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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them
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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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I'm not particularly interested in running for president.
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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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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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