Fred Thompson said this:
"I think that what is more important is leadership. And what’s more important, as a part of leadership, is telling the American people the truth and having the courage to do that. Telling the American people — for example, we were talking about:
Social Security, something everybody knows [is in trouble], but nobody wants to talk about; that the war is going to be protracted, probably, it’s going to take some time and more resources than we’ve been devoting as a percentage of our economy; that we’re not going to be energy independent in a few years.
It’s going to take a longer time. We’re going to have to move that big battleship as much as we can in as short a period of time as we can, but it’s not around the corner. That we’re spending our next generation’s money, and we’re bankrupting them, in many respects, as far as our entitlement programs are concerned. Those are truths. We’re going to have to go to the American people and say, “Here’s the deal. Here’s what we need to do. Let’s do what generations have done in times past: Come together. Do the right thing.”
That’s the change that we need. I wish we could change to that."
Honesty. WOW--what a concept. Fred, I miss you already.
