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Fred Thompson
American
Politician
Born:
Aug 19
,
1942
Died:
Nov 1
,
2015
Believe
Chinese
People
Think
World
You
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China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
Fred Thompson
World
Destruction
Weapons
Mass
Mass Destruction
Greatest
Rogue
Nations
China
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.
Fred Thompson
Law
Decision
Important
Believe
Analysis
Tool
Results
Making
Important Tool
Trump
Existing
Inform
While
Decision-Making
Agency
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.
Fred Thompson
Important
Difficult
Would
Would-Be
Something
Small
Could
Taiwan
Like
Understand
American
Place
Little
Average
Average American
Why
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.
Fred Thompson
Democracy
World
Back
Our
Draw
Willing
Vital
Around
Lines
Up
Friends
Regard
Interest
Sand
Certain
Basic
Things
Basic Things
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.
Fred Thompson
Suffering
People
Alien
Some People
Own
Think
Our
Our Planet
Telling
Mars
Some
Martian
Scientists
Led
Wonder
Fever
Jupiter
Experiencing
Warming
Us
Planet
Planetary
Inhabited
Now
Actually
Necessarily
Treaty
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
Fred Thompson
Aid
Obligated
Attacked
Taiwan
Come
Chinese
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
Fred Thompson
Good
Relationship
Good Relationship
Clearly
Know
Want
Chinese
Them
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.
Fred Thompson
Time
History
People
Long
Long Time
Judiciary
Before
About
Something
Come
Like
Until
Judiciary Committee
Up
Senate
American
Committee
American History
Even
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.
Fred Thompson
Best
Think
Respected
Way
Tell
Totally
Could
Part
Most
Democrat
Answering
Were
Senators
Republican
Justices
Should
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Fred Thompson
People
Independence
Think
Relatively
Small
Taiwan
Pushing
Who
Number
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.
Fred Thompson
Daily
Risks
People
Live
Those
Hurting
About
Concerned
End
Very
May
Clout
In The End
Poor
Should
Who
Many
Washington
Lives
Daily Lives
Here
Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
Fred Thompson
Finance
Our
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Though
Scandal
About
Fact
Know
Involved
Overlook
Were
Campaign
Campaign Finance
Campaigns
Chinese
Congressional
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
Fred Thompson
Business
Risk
Open
Nobody
Site
Being
Wants
Sued
Near
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.
Fred Thompson
Relationship
Will
Beginning
Side
Our
Correctly
Hopefully
Some
Having
Major
Make
Improvement
Wants
China
Them
Choices
Choose
Whose
So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
Fred Thompson
History
You
World
Long
Own
Aggressive
Back
Sphere
Neighborhood
Out
Carrying
Tried
Long History
Purposes
Take
Never
Over
Look
Been
Quite
China
Interests
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
Fred Thompson
Make
Just
Decisions
Public
Agency
Ask
Less
Reasonable
Deserves
Honest
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson
War
Conflict
Made
Country
Mistakes
Past
Say
Would
Gulf
Gulf War
Some
Korean
Were
Ambiguous
Persian
Persian Gulf
Times
Where
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Fred Thompson
You
Promises
Example
Setting
Ourselves
Promise
Protecting
Known
Prior
Expense
Substitute
After
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