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Excerpts from Books by and about 2008 candidates
Sen. Joe Biden
Promises to Keep
Sen. Sam Brownback
From Power to Purpose
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Living History
Pres. Bill Clinton
My Life
Sen. Chris Dodd
Letters from Nuremberg
Sen. John Edwards
Ending Poverty in America
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Leadership
Sen. Mike Gravel
Citizen Power
Gov. Mike Huckabee
From Hope to Higher Ground
Amb. Alan Keyes
Our Character, Our Future
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
A Prayer for America
Sen. John McCain
Why Courage Matters
Sen. Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Rep. Ron Paul
A Foreign Policy of Freedom
Gov. Bill Richardson
Between Worlds
Gov. Mitt Romney
Turnaround
Rep. Tom Tancredo
Mortal Danger
Sen. Fred Thompson
Government at the Brink

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Government at the Brink:
The Root Causes of Government Waste and Mismanagement,
by Fred Thompson



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Click here for 12 full quotes from Fred Thompson in the book Government at the Brink, by Fred Thompson.
OR click on an issue category below for a subset.
Civil Rights
   No end in sight to problems with Indian Trust Funds.
Drugs
   DEA has no meaningful performance goals on illegal drugs.
Government Reform
   Ludicrous waste & fraud: you wonder if anyone is even trying.
   Boston's Big Dig #1 on Top Ten Worst Mismanagement.
   Federal civil service system is broken.
   Government invests billions on systems that don't work.
Health Care
   Medicare loses $11B per year to errors and fraud.
   Medicare drug payment methods are fundamentally flawed.
Homeland Security
   DoD cannot account for where spending goes.
   FEMA faces systemic and long-standing management problems.
Jobs
   USDA problems: info security and Forest Service finances.
Technology
   Government unable to protect its computer data from attack.


The above quotations are from Government at the Brink:
The Root Causes of Government Waste and Mismanagement,
by Fred Thompson.

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