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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Agency
Analysis
Decision
Results
Trump
Existing
Important Tool
Inform
Tool
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Politics
News
Voting
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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
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Average
Important
Littles
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
American History
Judiciary
Long
People
Senate
Time History Long
Committee
Judiciary Committee
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Average
Taiwan
Average American
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Government
Feet
Sea
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Finance
Campaign Finance
Campaigns
Chinese
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Scandal
Campaign
Congressional
Overlook
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Democrat
Justice
Senators
Thinking
Way
Totally
Answering
Justices
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Ambiguous
Conflict
Gulf War
Persian
Persian Gulf
Mistakes
Gulf
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Christian
Leader
School
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Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Morning
Office
Watches
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Criminals
Gun
Virginia
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Men
Children
Suicidal
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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
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Relationship
Choices
Want
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Air
Military
Support
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
China
Improvement
Beginning
Choose
Correctly
Major
Whose
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This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Freedom
Country
Tired
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Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Character
Civilization
Leader
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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
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Friends
Democracy
Lines
World
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Friends
Basic Things
Certain
Democracy
Interest
Lines
Regard
Sand
Willing
Basic
Draw
Vital
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Assistance
Commitment
Country
Long
Long Term
Regard
Short Term
Decisions
Afford
Month
Basic
Commitments
Obviously
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Cities
Clout
Concerned
Hurt
People
Washington
Daily
Daily Lives
Hurting
In The End
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Cyberspace
Information
Military
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Air
Clean
Clean Air
Differences
Good Things
Injury
Political Differences
Real
Regulation
Safe
Transportation
Systems
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Gay
Rights
Thinking
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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
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Long
Spheres
World
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Aggressive
China
Neighborhood
History World Long
Carrying
History Look World
Interests
Long History
Purposes
Sphere
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Building Up
Gains
People
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Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Encouragement
Country
Grateful
Party
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Character
Country
World
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Acting
People
Waiting
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I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Running
Offering
Thinking
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Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Hands
Long
Numbers
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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.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Fever
Jupiter
Kyoto
Mars
Our Planet
People
Suffering
Thinking
Wonder
Alien
Experiencing
Inhabited
Led
Necessarily
Planet
Scientists
Some People
Telling
Treaty
Warming
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If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Government
Class
People
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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'?
Fred Thompson / Former United States Senator
Determination
Soldier
Waiting
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