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" 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. "

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" What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe. "

" 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. "

" Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. "

" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "

" I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do. "

" The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed. "

" Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations. "

" We have taught Iran's leaders and the world a very bad lesson: that there is a price on the head of Americans to be held hostage. "

" Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off. "

" Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and kept America safe. It's critical role in our national security cannot be overstated. "

" Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. "

" 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. "

" If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks. "

" The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote. "

" 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. "

" We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria. "

" Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible. "

" There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not. "

" Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. "

" Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We should be proud for the way we treated these savages at Guantanamo Bay and the way our soldiers conduct themselves all around the world to include the people doing the very hard work at Guantanamo Bay. "

" The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936. "

" Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries. "

" It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve. "

" I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership. "

" 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. "

" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "

" 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. "

" With Iran, we negotiated privately in 2012-2013 from a position of strength, not a position of weakness. The secret negotiations in Oman. This ultimately led to the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013. "

" We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place. "