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" Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. "
Tom Cotton
Young Man
Say
Some People
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" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
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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. "
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" What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe. "
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" It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy... we play an important role. And I'm going to continue to play that role, whoever is president. "
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" 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.' "
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End
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Office
" It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union. "
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" 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. "
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Me
Live
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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
Think
" 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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" 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. "
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Neighborhood
Lot
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" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
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Will
Torture
Does
" I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do. "
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Sent
People
Focused
" 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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Daily
Care
Prayer
" 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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Yes
Left
Men
" 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. "
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Policy
Congress
Foreign Policy
" 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
" Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. "
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Other
Human Beings
Ambition
" 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. "
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Women
Men
Government
" 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. "
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Trying
Congress
Today
" 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. "
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Business
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" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
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Impossible
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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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Congress
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Democrats
" 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. "
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Nuclear Power
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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. "
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World
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" The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it. "
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Celebrate
World
Stand
" Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. "
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Iran
Military
Infrastructure
" 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. "
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Voice
Support
You
" 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. "
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See
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" The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure. "
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Central
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