Fred Thompson Quotes

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.

We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

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.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

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.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

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.