Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompsonwas an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. Thompson, a Republican, served in the United States Senate representing Tennessee from 1994 to 2003, as well as a GOP presidential candidate in 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth19 August 1942
CitySheffield, AL
CountryUnited States of America
ask duty tough
a right and duty to ask tough questions.
soon
I'll put it on as soon as you come up with it.
authority call counsel encourage office talking using
I'm talking about using the authority of your office to encourage them to do the right thing. I would call on you to do, as you've done before, and call on an independent counsel yourself,
man
Cheney is the right man at the right time.
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I felt we controlled the game and created more chances with the ball. The freshman played well which is not easy to do if you are not used to the collegiate pace.
chances controlled created easy felt freshman game played
I felt we controlled the game and created more chances with the ball, ... The freshman played well which is not easy to do if you are not used to the collegiate pace.
cut forever nose ought run spite
I don't think that we ought to cut off our nose to spite our face. I don't even necessarily think that in the long run that we should forever keep them out of WTO,
asked detail exactly rather
I'd rather not detail exactly what we have asked for,
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I am very excited to have Tim join us. His character alone makes him a vital part of what we are building. He is determined, enthusiastic, driven and I believe he is already starting to bleed Orange and Brown. He gives everything he has and he isn't afraid of hard work. I'm looking forward to watching him grow into an indispensable part of this program.
campaign changes finance needed reform time
I am one of those who have thought for a long time that we needed to make some significant changes in our campaign finance reform system.
hands numbers long
Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.
building-up people income
A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.
government class people
If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.
lucky october
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.