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."
And his best quote of all:
"The Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan."
(yeah...I know it's from a movie!)
You're kidding, right?
Have you no sense of humor at all??? Don't you detect sarcasm?
It looks like the idiots who continue to misunderestimate Bush are not confined to the DU site.
Me three and four......there are two of us in this house who would certainly vote for Fred Thompson!
""After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.""
LOL!
I love sarcasm, I don't like East coast establishment Republicans, especially those that are beholding to Hollywood. I Like Fred, I just don't like the people that are promoting him.
Debts are usually repaid in the political world of Compromize
You're one of those people who doesn't even trust their pastor, aren't you?
Why, in your estimation, is Fred Thompson [sic] "beholding" [sic} to Hollywood? Isn't it interesting that in every role I can recall, he's played a conservative type? Isn't he playing a conservative amongst liberals in L&O?
Some people could have a butt made of gold, but be upset that it had a crack down the middle.
Sorry for the rather crude analogy...it's an old saying of my dad's.
Point made. My question remains, though: Who is the complainer's candidate? I'll bet that (s)he is an ardent follower of one of the other candidates. It's just plain stupid to deny reality. It cheapens what you are supposedly standing for.
"It was a joke, LOL! Some people have no sense of humor..."
You're being too harsh. You have to remember that many FReepers are "Humor Impaired" and if you get too silly they'll call the Fun Police on you and you don't want that.
Ah, so the guy can't say 5 words without an "uhhhh", and loses his train of thought constantly while speaking, and I am underestimating him? This is all part of his master plan? Wow, I can't wait for it to kick in!
My favorite.
I clearly don't agree with Bush on a lot of issues, but anyone who can be elected president twice is clearly not stupid or retarded (although anyone suggesting it might be).
Most definitely. Esp. the one about Hollywood.
I didn't say he was either. But I just cannot understand why the guy can give bring-the-house-down speeches like the one after 9/11, and then sound like he got no sleep for his day-to-day statements and speeches.
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