"We've made some mistakes in this country in……" — Fred Thompson
"We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do."
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57 Quotes by Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson has 57 quotes on this site.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood
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A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.
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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…
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Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait…
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Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and…
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Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you…
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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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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party…
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I don't attend [church] regularly...
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I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.
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Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
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More Ambiguous Quotes
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one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If…
— Nicolas Cage
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools…
— Carl Sagan
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Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ...…
— Unknown Author
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
— G. H. Hardy
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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of…
— Odilon Redon
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous…
— J. Michael Bishop
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The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad…
— Isabelle Huppert
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you…
— Emily Blunt
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
— Brian Eno
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
— Keith Richards
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