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" We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria. "
Tom Cotton
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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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Matter
Said
" 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
" We're going to make America a better place. "
Tom Cotton
America
Place
Better Place
" You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise. "
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Challenges
Know
" I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing. "
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Every
Saying
Single
" Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. "
Tom Cotton
Other
Human Beings
Ambition
" 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.' "
Tom Cotton
End
Believe
Office
" At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. "
Tom Cotton
Life
Political
Philosophy
" 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. "
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Easy
Spiritual
True
" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "
Tom Cotton
Case
Make
Trump
" As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison. "
Tom Cotton
Conversation
Think
Republican
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Neighborhood
Lot
Tough
" As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy. "
Tom Cotton
Policy
Foreign Policy
Important
" 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
" 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
" It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States. "
Tom Cotton
Why
War
Against
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Small
Would
Power
" 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
" Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner. "
Tom Cotton
Recognize
Partner
Iran
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Influence
Commitment
Victory
" Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran. "
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Bad
Just
People
" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "
Tom Cotton
Find
Teenagers
You
" Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off. "
Tom Cotton
Morning
Night
Police
" The Islamic State is using medieval tactics. "
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Using
Medieval
Islamic
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Politics
Business
Men
" What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does. "
Tom Cotton
Privacy
Discount
More
" 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
" 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. "
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Debate
Enemy
Think