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.
Fred ThompsonYou can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Fred ThompsonIs it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?
Fred ThompsonStudy: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare.
Fred ThompsonWe have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.
Fred Thompson