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" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Believe
I Believe
Result
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" Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan. "
Tom Cotton
Wishes
Legal
Family
" I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced. "
Tom Cotton
Military
Budget
Donald Trump
" Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. "
Tom Cotton
Donald Trump
Like
America
" Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America. "
Tom Cotton
Find
Teenagers
You
" The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure. "
Tom Cotton
Structure
Central
Congress
" 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
" 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
" The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936. "
Tom Cotton
Germany
Great
Wishes
" 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
" 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 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
" 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. "
Tom Cotton
Military
Know
Best
" No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me. "
Tom Cotton
Me
Live
Decision
" 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
" I run a lot every morning. "
Tom Cotton
Run
Lot
Every
" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Truth
Impossible
Crime
" The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats. "
Tom Cotton
Budget
Threats
Reflect
" 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
" 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
" Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself. "
Tom Cotton
Case
Make
Trump
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government. "
Tom Cotton
Country
Military
American
" I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future. "
Tom Cotton
Nor
Prison
Believe
" The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot. "
Tom Cotton
Listening
Search
Reading
" I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do. "
Tom Cotton
Sent
People
Focused
" By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011. "
Tom Cotton
Road
Election
Late
" We only have one president and one secretary of state, but our founding fathers very clearly insisted that Congress play a significant role in foreign policy. "
Tom Cotton
Policy
Congress
Foreign Policy