189 Quotes by Fred Thompson

I don't think that we ought to cut off our nose to spite our face. I don't even necessarily think that in the long run that we should forever keep them out of WTO,

I'd rather not detail exactly what we have asked for,

I am very excited to have Tim join us. His character alone makes him a vital part of what we are building. He is determined, enthusiastic, driven and I believe he is already starting to bleed Orange and Brown. He gives everything he has and he isn't afraid of hard work. I'm looking forward to watching him grow into an indispensable part of this program.

I am one of those who have thought for a long time that we needed to make some significant changes in our campaign finance reform system.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.