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" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
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" 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. "
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" 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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" There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "
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" Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries. "
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" 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. "
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" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "
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" In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military. "
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" It would be very dangerous and unwise to proceed with the Senate Judiciary bill, which would lead to the release of thousands of violent felons. "
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Dangerous
Lead
" Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. "
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" As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison. "
Tom Cotton
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Think
Republican
" We want the president to act to keep America safe. "
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" 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. "
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Care
Prayer
" 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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Weakness
Plan
" I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for. "
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Election
You
" 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. "
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Out
Tools
" 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.' "
Tom Cotton
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" I will say that there are genuine and serious concerns about what Hillary Clinton did before the Benghazi attacks, during them, and after them. I think her extremely careless handling of classified information, to use FBI Director Jim Comey's term, disqualifies her from being president. "
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Her
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" Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and kept America safe. It's critical role in our national security cannot be overstated. "
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" 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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" We need to be tough once again in the world. "
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Again
" 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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Planned
Off
" Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead information' that enabled the agency to recognize the importance of a courier for Usama bin Laden, a crucial understanding that led to Bin Laden's secret hideout in Pakistan and the U.S. raid that killed him. "
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Him
Information
" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
Tom Cotton
Will
Torture
Does
" We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies. "
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Allies
Security
Responsible