Quotes from Fred Thompson

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

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.

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

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.