Posted on 03/14/2007 8:03:43 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Fred Thompson Quotes
"Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks."
"You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you."
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
"Is it really in our country’s 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? Doesn’t 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'?"
"I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges."
"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody."
"You know, marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that."
"I'm against gun control generally. You know, you check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue."
"The court [by overturning the D.C. gun ban] basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."
"We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them. I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world."
"I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million [illegal immigrants]. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary."
"If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today."
"Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now."
"I'd do it [pardon Scooter Libby] now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice."
"We've got an entitlement program that's bankrupting us. We've got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us."
"They're [the Red Chinese] still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan."
"I'm going to give it [running for president] serious consideration."
Don't forget his law and order resets LMAO
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There surely is a touch of Reagan in those quotes.
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"Is it really in our country’s 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? Doesn’t 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'?" 'Nuff Said!
If the guy runs, I'm with him.
“This business will get out of control… it’ll get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it!
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still. And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after two hundred years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger. We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.
And so, good-bye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Me too.
That's why I said there's "a touch" of Reagan. Fred's got a long way to go!
Thanks for posting that.
""I guess it beats dousing yourself with rum and lighting up a Cohiba."
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
This says a lot.
All I need to know, and nothing Reaganesque about him.
itsahoot wrote: "realism and sincerity of Hollywood
All I need to know, and nothing Reaganesque about him."
It was a joke, LOL! Some people have no sense of humor...
At least he can say an entire sentence without bungling it, unlike our current Pretender-in-Chief.
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We need a Thompson vs Guiliani chart to compare the two the same way there is that chart that compares Guiliani to Hilary Clinton.
I have had my fill of RINOs and politicians who have "seen the light" just in time to run for an office.
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