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" Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. "
Tom Cotton
Other
Human Beings
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" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
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" I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced. "
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" We're simply trying to say that Congress has a constitutional role to approve any deal, to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Not today, not tomorrow, not ten years from now. "
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" I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region. "
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" The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot. "
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" I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she's disqualified herself from Commander-in-Chief by her cavalier attitude towards our nation's secrecy laws. "
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" I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them. "
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" The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue. "
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" Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off. "
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Night
Police
" It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy... we play an important role. And I'm going to continue to play that role, whoever is president. "
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" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "
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Than
Drive
" No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me. "
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Me
Live
Decision
" We want the president to act to keep America safe. "
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President
Keep
" Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military. "
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Our
Military
" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "
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Make
Trump
" Actions have consequences. "
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Actions
Consequences
" Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. "
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Communities
Our
Order
" Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necessary to carry out attacks using small arms and explosives. None of this requires any overseas travel. "
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Arms
Out
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" The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies. "
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Like
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" The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936. "
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Germany
Great
Wishes
" I think that Americans - and this is not true just now, but over the years - are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars. "
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War
Losing
True
" Our warriors and their families don't ask for much. But there are a few things we'd like. A commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly. "
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Red
Enemy
" It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States. "
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" I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Benghazi attacks, during them, and after them. I think her extremely careless handling of classified information, to use FBI Director Jim Comey's term, disqualifies her from being president. "
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" Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria. "
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" I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future. "
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Prison
Believe
" I've said all along: I'll support the nominee, because we can't afford another term of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy or, for that matter, economic policy at home. "
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Support
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Said
" I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing. "
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Every
Saying
Single
" I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do. "
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Sent
People
Focused