Fred Thompson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.”

“We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.”

“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.”

“But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.”

“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.”

“For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”