Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
Fred ThompsonI'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
Fred ThompsonIf 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.
Fred Thompson