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" 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. "

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" By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011. "

Tom Cotton

Road

Election

Late

" At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. "

" Actions have consequences. "

Tom Cotton

Actions

Consequences

" Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan. "

" 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. "

" The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot. "

Tom Cotton

Listening

Reading

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words. "

" The Islamic State is using medieval tactics. "

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

Tom Cotton

Stairs

Groups

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We want the president to act to keep America safe. "

" There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning. "

" 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. "

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

" The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue. "

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

" 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. "

" Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner. "

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

" Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress. "

Tom Cotton

Congress

United

" 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

Lot

Act

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden. "