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
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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.
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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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There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world
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I'm more concerned that if he goes, he's going to ... make agreements to transfer additional technology. It's been reported that he's thinking in those terms,
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I'm just going to switch jobs with (Kawaguchi),
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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,
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a right and duty to ask tough questions.
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We missed him, but I don't think the outcome would have been any different.
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There is nothing in there that I can say is going to be earth-shattering or reveals something that people don't already know. But I think the bits and pieces of my life during that period are well represented.
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During this last encounter, John McCain became the leading voice on this issue in Washington, D.C., including the White House, ... the fact of the matter is that he took a strong position early on because he was able to analyze it and he had the courage to go forward with it, and he turned out to be right, which always helps.
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We did a much better job this game staying in it mentally,
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Eastern positioned themselves well in both overtimes. At that time there were two very tired teams on the field, but we stayed mentally tough, ... Our effort was fantastic throughout the weekend.