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" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Threats
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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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" Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Men
Government
" The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.' "
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" 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. "
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" If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation. "
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Need
" 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
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Change
Privacy
" 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. "
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Faith
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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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World
Stand
" 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
" I and many other senators, Republican and Democrat, have expressed our sincere and long-held intent that Congress must approve any nuclear deal with Iran for months. "
Tom Cotton
Congress
Republican
Intent
" 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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Arms
Out
Tools
" I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing. "
Tom Cotton
Every
Saying
Single
" 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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Say
Her
Think
" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
Tom Cotton
Will
Torture
Does
" 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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Say
Important
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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. "
Tom Cotton
Understanding
Him
Information
" In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. "
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Opinion
Now
Country
" At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. "
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Life
Political
Philosophy
" I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups. "
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Stairs
Groups
" I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot. "
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" I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines. "
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Started
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" The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East. "
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Core
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" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "
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" Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words. "
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May
Words
Things
" It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve. "
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Job
" Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress. "
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He
Congress
United
" In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom. "
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Arkansas
Believe
Freedom