Fred Thompson Quotes

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
Fred Thompson

Problem, Sometimes, Sense

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.
Fred Thompson

Best, Worst, Hoping

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson

Build, Draw, Hopefully

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Fred Thompson

After, Ourselves, Known

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.
Fred Thompson

Judge, Down, Give

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

Finance, Fact, Though

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
Fred Thompson

Old, While, Process

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
Fred Thompson

Aid, Taiwan, Attacked

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

Greatest, Nations, Weapons

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
Fred Thompson

Good, Clearly, Chinese

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Fred Thompson

Small, Number, Pushing

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
Fred Thompson

Business, Risk, Nobody

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
Fred Thompson

Sometimes, Build, Draw

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

Good, America, Cleaning

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
Fred Thompson

Law, Degree, Skill

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
Fred Thompson

Important, Priorities, Ask

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
Fred Thompson

Decisions, Honest, Less

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

Important, Small, Understand

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

Democracy, Friends, Around

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

Bad, May, Country

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

Time, History, Long

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.
Fred Thompson

Health, Children, May

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

Best, Tell, Republican

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

Live, End, Daily

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

Beginning, Choices, Choose

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: August 19, 1942

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