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" Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries. "
Tom Cotton
Sensitive
Secrets
Nation
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" The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure. "
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Structure
Central
Congress
" In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military. "
Tom Cotton
World
Prosperity
Military
" Actions have consequences. "
Tom Cotton
Actions
Consequences
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Nation
You
Think
" The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity. "
Tom Cotton
Blessings
Faith
Peace
" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Threats
Reflect
" What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does. "
Tom Cotton
Privacy
Discount
More
" I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It's a tough neighborhood. There's a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran. "
Tom Cotton
Neighborhood
Lot
Tough
" We want the president to act to keep America safe. "
Tom Cotton
Want
President
Keep
" The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan. "
Tom Cotton
See
Afghanistan
Limited
" 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
" By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011. "
Tom Cotton
Road
Election
Late
" Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals travel to terrorist training camps overseas and then are deployed to the West to inflict atrocities. "
Tom Cotton
Today
Travel
West
" I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil. "
Tom Cotton
Life
Good
Future
" 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
" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
Tom Cotton
Will
Torture
Does
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Small
Would
Power
" 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
" I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced. "
Tom Cotton
Military
Budget
Donald Trump
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Like
Bad
Dangerous
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Nor
Prison
Believe
" Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. "
Tom Cotton
Communities
Our
Order
" The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power state with a ballistic missile program. "
Tom Cotton
Nuclear Power
Because
I Am
" The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East. "
Tom Cotton
Middle
Core
Middle East
" My heart goes out, as does every American, when I see the videotape of Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini coming back to their families. "
Tom Cotton
Heart
I See
See
" At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. "
Tom Cotton
Life
Political
Philosophy
" President Obama likes to say Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an easy excuse, it's simply not true. The reality is the motivations of radical Islamic jihadism existed before Guantanamo Bay. The ideology is premised on a narrative of conquest, in the spiritual as well as the earthly world. "
Tom Cotton
Easy
Spiritual
True
" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
Tom Cotton
Arkansas
Believe
Freedom
" Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. "
Tom Cotton
Iran
Military
Infrastructure
" 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
Crime
Tough
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