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" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
Tom Cotton
Arkansas
Believe
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" We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist. "
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Take
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" The Iranian people, if you look at their demographics and their level of education, could be a strong source for stability in the Middle East. The problem is they're run by an apocalyptic cult of ayatollahs. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Off
" Our warriors and their families don't ask for much. But there are a few things we'd like. A commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly. "
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Red
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" 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. "
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" I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups. "
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Groups
" 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. "
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Commitment
Victory
" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Truth
Impossible
Crime
" 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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Night
Police
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Congress
Constitution
Democrats
" Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad. "
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Say
Radical
Fighting
" 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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War
Losing
True
" 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
" Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: 'Really? I do, too.' "
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Dating
Birthday
Wife
" We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies. "
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Allies
Security
Responsible
" It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve. "
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President
Negotiate
Job
" Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. "
Tom Cotton
Young Man
Say
Some People
" I've said all along: I'll support the nominee, because we can't afford another term of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy or, for that matter, economic policy at home. "
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Support
Matter
Said
" Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. "
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Communities
Our
Order
" 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
" What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does. "
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Privacy
Discount
More
" 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? "
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Technology
Change
Privacy
" It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States. "
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Why
War
Against
" The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote. "
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Majority
Senate
Vote
" 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. "
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Strength
Weakness
Plan
" 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. "
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Get
Strategy
Serious
" 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