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Fred Thompson

Freddie "Fred" Dalton Thompson (1942-2015) was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, a Republican, who served from 1994 to 2003. He was also an actor, columnist, and radio personality.


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

Minor surgery is surgery that someone else is having.

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.

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

Teaching Latin to someone like me in high school was somewhat like trying to teach a pig to dance. It's a waste of the teacher's time and it irritates the pig.

Where I stand doesn't depend on where I'm standing.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.