189 Quotes by Fred Thompson

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

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

I’m not particularly interested in running for president,

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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