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" We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist. "
Tom Cotton
Vigilant
Take
Remain
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" Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner. "
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Iran
" Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. "
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Young Man
Say
Some People
" Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don't consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women. "
Tom Cotton
Divorce
Young
Women
" The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies. "
Tom Cotton
Like
Bad
Dangerous
" 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
" 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
Dating
Birthday
Wife
" We're going to make America a better place. "
Tom Cotton
America
Place
Better Place
" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Threats
Reflect
" 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
" America does not torture. We never have, and we never will. "
Tom Cotton
Will
Torture
Does
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Voice
Support
You
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
World
Prosperity
Military
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Syria
Today
Losing
" 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
" The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. "
Tom Cotton
Been
Iran
Lebanon
" I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal enemy. And the White House - despite all their efforts - failed miserably. "
Tom Cotton
Debate
Enemy
Think
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Fight
Started
War
" I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for. "
Tom Cotton
People
Election
You
" The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas. "
Tom Cotton
Boston
Middle East
America
" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Truth
Impossible
Crime
" Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future. "
Tom Cotton
Accepted
Future
Now
" The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed. "
Tom Cotton
Majority
Alone
Never
" 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
" 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
" We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria. "
Tom Cotton
Iraq
Need
Syria
" 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
" Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress. "
Tom Cotton
He
Congress
United
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
See
Want
Beginning
" We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies. "
Tom Cotton
Adversaries
Allies
Quit