“Fred was the same man on the floor of the Senate, the movie studio, or the town square of … his home.” — The family statement announcing that former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson died in Nashville at the age of 73.
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“We need to mature in the way that we do these debates if they’re going to be useful to the American people.” — GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson on ABC’s “This Week.”
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“Why should we have these people that hate everything we stand for?” — Donald Trump, suggesting that Republican debate moderators be required to prove that they vote Republican after the party’s national committee expressed dismay at the line of questioning from CNBC commentators.
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“People were fainting, they were fainting from the smoke. It was total chaos, people were trampling on each other.” — Victor Ionescu to Antena 3 TV after a heavy metal band’s pyrotechnics show sparked a deadly fire at a Romanian nightclub, killing 27 people.
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“There’s no denying the serious risk they will be facing. (But their mission will) not be to lead the charge to take the hill.” — White House spokesman Josh Earnest after the United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State group in Syria, pledging up to 50 special operations troops.
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“In defeat, TransCanada is asking for extra time from the referees, and clearly hoping they’ll get a new head official after the election. It’s time for the current umpire, President Obama, to reject this project once and for all.” — Environmental activist Bill McKibben, co-founder of the group 350.org, on TransCanada’s request that the U.S. State Department suspend its review of the Keystone XL pipeline project.
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