Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Fred Thompson - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

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

Is it really in our countrys 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? Doesnt 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'?

Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship.

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

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.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

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

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

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.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

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

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

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.

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

Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. 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.

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. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

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

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

I don't attend [church] regularly.

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

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