Fred Thompson Quotes

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

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

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Study: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.'

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

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

Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

I'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.

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

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

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

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

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

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.

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

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

I don't attend [church] regularly.

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

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.

During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around.

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

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

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

I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.

John McCain was a prisoner of war.