Fred Thompson Quotes

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• Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
• After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood
• A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.
• You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
• Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer…
• Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
• Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not…
• You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
• Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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…
• I don't attend [church] regularly...
• I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
• Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
• Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,
• I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.
• I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories…
• 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.
• 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 not particularly interested in running for president,
• Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill…
• 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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