"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview. >>Details
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"I'm proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record."
Fred Thompson on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 in >>Details
"So what sort of services does Romney's health care plan provide? Per the state Web site: $50 co-pay for abortions."
Fred Thompson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a press release >>Details
"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 in an email press release >>Details
Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings."
Fred Thompson on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
"I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce."
Fred Thompson on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
“With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes" and been the lone dissenter.
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in a speech in Sioux City, Iowa >>Details
We live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in article on his campaign Web site >>Details
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details
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