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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "

" I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups. "

" I run a lot every morning. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In Arkansas, we believe in religious 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion. "

" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "

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

" I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation. "

" Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran. "

" 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. "

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

" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "

" My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "