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" Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime. "
Tom Cotton
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" We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program. "
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" The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. "
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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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" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "
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Women
Divorce
Easy
" Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan. "
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Legal
Family
" Most of who's left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008. "
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Yes
Left
Men
" We're going to make America a better place. "
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America
Place
Better Place
" Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "
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Stop
Simple
" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "
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Than
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" Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions. "
Tom Cotton
Daily
Care
Prayer
" We only have one president and one secretary of state, but our founding fathers very clearly insisted that Congress play a significant role in foreign policy. "
Tom Cotton
Policy
Congress
Foreign Policy
" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
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Will
Torture
Does
" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
Tom Cotton
Arkansas
Believe
Freedom
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Trying
Congress
Today
" In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. "
Tom Cotton
Opinion
Now
Country
" Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are. "
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Need
Us
United States
" Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future. "
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Accepted
Future
Now
" If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem. "
Tom Cotton
Problem
Anything
" Unless we get serious about addressing Iran's regional ambitions in places like Syria, then our allies are never going to be confident that we have a strategy for the region. "
Tom Cotton
Get
Strategy
Serious
" Before the surge started, frankly, after I left Iraq towards the end of 2006, I was worried that we were losing the war. But after the surge, I felt that we succeeded. "
Tom Cotton
End
Started
Left
" I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government. "
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Country
Military
American
" The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote. "
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Majority
Senate
Vote
" I'm not going to respond to every single thing that Donald Trump has to say or that Hillary Clinton says. "
Tom Cotton
Single
Say
Going
" If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has. "
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Small
Would
Power
" Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. "
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Young Man
Say
Some People
" Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance. "
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Military
Know
Best
" The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it. "
Tom Cotton
Celebrate
World
Stand
" No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery. "
Tom Cotton
War
Planned
Off
" I decided early on, very early, that the best role I could play is to speak in my own voice, assume my own voice and my own ideas. Even if you support a candidate who ultimately wins, what you say and do is seen through the filter of that candidate. "
Tom Cotton
Voice
Support
You