Fred Thompson

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

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

“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.”

“But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.”

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

“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.”

“That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.”

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

“I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.”

“So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.”