Fred Thompson Quotes
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
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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.
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Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
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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.
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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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.
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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
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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.
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We 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.
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We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
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Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
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Where I stand doesn't depend on where I'm standing.
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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.
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The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
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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.