Fred Thompson Quotes
Quotes by Fred Thompson

Conservative
Words of Wisdom

"Marriage is between a man and a woman."

"I thought Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided."

"I've been 100% pro-life in every vote that I've ever cast."

"Taxes are necessary. But they don't make the country any better off."

"The growth of government is not solving these problems; it's causing a lot of them."

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."

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

"I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges."

"This radical threat we face today is committed to a hundred year war, and has been waging one against us for decades ..."

"The government could start by securing our nation's borders. A sovereign nation that can't do that is not a sovereign nation."

"In my view, the first priority of the federal government is the defense and security of its citizens and should be reflected in everything we do in government."

"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."

"If you want to know who John McCain is, if you want to know what John McCain values, look to the men and women who wear America's uniform today."

"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."

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

"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."

"I believe the Cold War began to end when President Ronald Reagan made this pledge on Inauguration Day, 1981, quote: "Our forbearance should never be misunderstood."

"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."

"If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today."

"The Democrats, of course, want to raise taxes. They only want to target the rich, they say. A word of advice to anyone in the middle class -- don't stand anywhere near that target."

"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."

"The American people -- you know they are the heroes that some folks in Washington have forgotten about. The mom who somehow finds hours in the day to care for and work for her family. The store owner who works dawn to dusk and lifts up his entire community. The young men and women who wear our uniform to protect our future and our liberty."

"The Democrats, of course, want to raise taxes. They only want to target the rich, they say. A word of advice to anyone in the middle class -- don't stand anywhere near that target. Wouldn't it be great if, instead of worrying so much about how to divide the pie, we could work together on how to make the pie bigger?"

"So I ask you, even though we won't be going around in the woods trying to find any bears to kill, sometimes the bear visits you whether you're looking for it or not. And when that time comes, and hopefully civilization will realize they're fighting the forces of destruction and darkness. Who is going to stand firm and stand strong and stand united, if it's not the USA?"

"We are a nation that haphazardly maintains its borders in the face of mounting evidence that such an approach is irresponsible. It is border insecurity that failed us on the morning of 9/11. Thus, when darkness fell that day, a more terrible prospect loomed into view - that unless we are vigilant and prepared, even small actors in the world can inflict catastrophic harm on the United States."

"Preemption didn't just appear one day as a good idea. During the Cold War, we had one big enemy & one big weapon against us. We now have multiple enemies. We now have terrorists & terrorist groups, Al Qaida, rogue nations in different stages of developing nuclear weapons. We must be prepared for the different kind of weaponry that we're facing. We could be attacked with a biological weapon and not even know it for a long period of time. This is a different world. So, instead of mutual assured destruction, which we lived under for a long time, it's now a world where preemption has got to be an option under the right circumstances."

"Taxes are necessary. But they don't make the country any better off. At best they simply move money from the private sector to the government. But taxes are also a burden on production, because they discourage people from working, saving, investing, and taking risks. Some economists have calculated that today each additional dollar collected by the government, by raising income-tax rates, makes the private sector as much as two dollars worse off. To me this means one simple thing: tax rates should be as low as possible. This isn't anything ideological, and it really isn't some great insight. It's common sense arithmetic."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com