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" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Support
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" 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
Us
World
Support
" No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me. "
Tom Cotton
Me
Live
Decision
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Arms
Out
Tools
" 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? "
Tom Cotton
Technology
Change
Privacy
" As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy. "
Tom Cotton
Policy
Foreign Policy
Important
" 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
" 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
" I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region. "
Tom Cotton
Like
Lot
Act
" When he was running, my thinking was, 'I can't believe my governor is running for president.' By the end of Clinton's first year in office, I was like, 'Wow, I must not be a Democrat.' "
Tom Cotton
End
Believe
Office
" I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups. "
Tom Cotton
Stairs
Groups
" 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
" Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Impossible
Balance
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Daily
Care
Prayer
" If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation. "
Tom Cotton
Back
Normal
Need
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Politics
Business
Men
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Voice
Support
You
" I run a lot every morning. "
Tom Cotton
Run
Lot
Every
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Women
Divorce
Easy
" Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion. "
Tom Cotton
American
Up
Soldiers
" I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for. "
Tom Cotton
People
Election
You
" I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly. "
Tom Cotton
Senator
Take
Lightly
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Women
Men
Government
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
People
Education
Problem
" Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress. "
Tom Cotton
He
Congress
United
" There are nothing but hardliners in Iran. "
Tom Cotton
Nothing
Iran
" 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
" The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas. "
Tom Cotton
Boston
Middle East
America
" Most of who's left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008. "
Tom Cotton
Yes
Left
Men
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
New
Place
Table
" The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed. "
Tom Cotton
Majority
Alone
Never