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We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

Fred Thompson

Injury

Name

Water

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

World

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

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.

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

Fred Thompson

Decisions

Public

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Fred Thompson

Common sense

Sight

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.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

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.