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" The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure. "
Tom Cotton
Structure
Central
Congress
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" I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly. "
Tom Cotton
Senator
Take
Lightly
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Our
Safe
America
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Easy
Spiritual
True
" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Truth
Impossible
Crime
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Need
Us
United States
" It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union. "
Tom Cotton
United States
American
Union
" 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
" There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria. "
Tom Cotton
Syria
Russia
Nothing
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
See
Afghanistan
Limited
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Lesson
World
Bad
" 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
" We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program. "
Tom Cotton
Need
Military
Destroy
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Celebrate
World
Stand
" Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran. "
Tom Cotton
Bad
Just
People
" Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. "
Tom Cotton
Donald Trump
Like
America
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
War
Losing
True
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Say
Radical
Fighting
" 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'm not going to respond to every single thing that Donald Trump has to say or that Hillary Clinton says. "
Tom Cotton
Single
Say
Going
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Country
Military
American
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
War
Planned
Off
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Get
Strategy
Serious
" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "
Tom Cotton
Case
Make
Trump
" The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity. "
Tom Cotton
Blessings
Faith
Peace
" Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "
Tom Cotton
Weapon
Stop
Simple
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Say
Her
Think
" The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed. "
Tom Cotton
Flawed
Iran
Nuclear
" I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil. "
Tom Cotton
Life
Good
Future