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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. "

Tom Cotton

Today

Travel

West

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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 truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "

" 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. "

" Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations. "

" The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimately only be defeated by moderate Muslims around the globe, countries like U.A.E. that have led the fight within their own border to promote tolerance. "

" If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks. "

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

" If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. "

" 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. "

" We're going to make America a better place. "

" Actions have consequences. "

Tom Cotton

Actions

Consequences

" 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. "

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

Tom Cotton

Stairs

Groups

" What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe. "

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

" 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. "

Tom Cotton

World

Support

" 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. "

" We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria. "

" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "

" 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. "

" I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced. "

" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "

" We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies. "

" 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. "

" It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union. "

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