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I heard Senator Sam Irvin of Watergate fame say something that stayed with me: 'If you can paint a really good picture of a cow, you don't have to write the word "cow" under it.'

— Fred Thompson Teaching the Pig to Dance (2010)

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

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.

My daddy always said that a man who walks around with a smile on his face all the time can't possibly know what's going on.

Teaching the Pig to Dance (2010)

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

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