Fred Dalton Thompson Quotes

I looked down on a quilt of clouds, bordered on the horizon by the blood-orange streaks of the setting sun. As the steady hum of the engine drowned out the chatter around me, I realized that I would...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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Not once did an off-the-record comment return to haunt me. For example, my relationship with Walter Pincus, editor of the New Republic, one of the nation’s most liberal magazines, developed to the...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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In hindsight, I have come to believe the discovery of the tapes may prove to be an historic event in more than one way. At a time when the United States government acknowledges that 2 million...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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After sleeping late on Sunday, I was back at my desk that afternoon. I had two prime considerations. First, I wanted to be certain that the tapes were not a trap for the committee or that there was a...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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As I reflected further, I convinced myself that Nixon had not had prior knowledge to the break-in, nor of the cover-up that followed. Even if culpability reached dangerously close to the president, I...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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I was operating under the theory that, even though Baker had been responsible for my appointment, I was representing all three minority senators - Baker, Edward Gurney of Florida, and Weicker. If...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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When five men were captured in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee early in the morning on Saturday June 17, 1972 I had just completed a three-year stint as an assistant United...

Fred Dalton Thompson

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program.

Fred Dalton Thompson

Des Moines Register - 2007.

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

Fred Dalton Thompson

Iowa Campaign Speech "Hands Down" - 2007.

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Some of our folks went to Washington to drain the swamp and made partnership with the alligators instead.

Fred Dalton Thompson

Stephen Rodrick. "The Actor", New York, 2007.

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