189 Quotes by Fred Thompson

Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan.

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.

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

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

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I’m tired of people feeling like they’ve got to apologize for America.

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.

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 are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can’t have all carrots and no sticks.