American - Politician | August 19, 1942 - November 1, 2015
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
Fred Thompson
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
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There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
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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.
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Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
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We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
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