"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'"
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
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