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" 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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" What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and that Iran and Russia cannot be granted a sphere of influence in Syria, and that we will not sit down at the negotiating table to help broker Assad's victory in this fight. "

Tom Cotton

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Commitment

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" 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. "

" As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy. "

" Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military. "

" There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria. "

" 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. "

" The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it's a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed. "

" We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies. "

Tom Cotton

World

Support

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

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

" The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East. "

" I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face new risks of privacy, in addition to changing safeguards that might need to be relaxed in an emergency situation? "

" Actions have consequences. "

Tom Cotton

Actions

Consequences

" 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. "

Tom Cotton

Need

United States

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are nothing but hardliners in Iran. "

Tom Cotton

Nothing

Iran

" Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "

" The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure. "

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

" If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem. "

Tom Cotton

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Anything