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" We're going to make America a better place. "
Tom Cotton
America
Place
Better Place
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" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Than
Drive
" Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We should be proud for the way we treated these savages at Guantanamo Bay and the way our soldiers conduct themselves all around the world to include the people doing the very hard work at Guantanamo Bay. "
Tom Cotton
Proud
Hard Work
People
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Support
Matter
Said
" There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria. "
Tom Cotton
Syria
Russia
Nothing
" 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
" 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
" 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 U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East. "
Tom Cotton
Middle
Core
Middle East
" Our warriors and their families don't ask for much. But there are a few things we'd like. A commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly. "
Tom Cotton
Name
Red
Enemy
" The Islamic State is using medieval tactics. "
Tom Cotton
Using
Medieval
Islamic
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Achievement
Differences
Look
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Arms
Out
Tools
" 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
" We need to be tough once again in the world. "
Tom Cotton
World
Need
Again
" 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
" Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria. "
Tom Cotton
Now
Victory
Battle
" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "
Tom Cotton
Find
Teenagers
You
" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "
Tom Cotton
Case
Make
Trump
" Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. "
Tom Cotton
Communities
Our
Order
" With Iran, we negotiated privately in 2012-2013 from a position of strength, not a position of weakness. The secret negotiations in Oman. This ultimately led to the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013. "
Tom Cotton
Strength
Weakness
Plan
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
New
Place
Table
" 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
" The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it's a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed. "
Tom Cotton
Congress
Constitution
Democrats
" As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy. "
Tom Cotton
Policy
Foreign Policy
Important
" 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
" Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime. "
Tom Cotton
Crime
Tough
Visit
" The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue. "
Tom Cotton
Problem
Just
Encryption
" Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. "
Tom Cotton
Iran
Military
Infrastructure
" 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