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" What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does. "
Tom Cotton
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" 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. "
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Planned
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" Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible. "
Tom Cotton
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Impossible
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" Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. "
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Budget
Than
Drive
" 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. "
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Boston
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" 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
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" Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad. "
Tom Cotton
Say
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" 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
" The Iranian people, if you look at their demographics and their level of education, could be a strong source for stability in the Middle East. The problem is they're run by an apocalyptic cult of ayatollahs. "
Tom Cotton
People
Education
Problem
" 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
" At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. "
Tom Cotton
Life
Political
Philosophy
" Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. "
Tom Cotton
Communities
Our
Order
" We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria. "
Tom Cotton
Iraq
Need
Syria
" 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
" 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
" The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it. "
Tom Cotton
Celebrate
World
Stand
" It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve. "
Tom Cotton
President
Negotiate
Job
" The Islamic State is using medieval tactics. "
Tom Cotton
Using
Medieval
Islamic
" 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
" The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible. "
Tom Cotton
Truth
Impossible
Crime
" 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
" I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing. "
Tom Cotton
Every
Saying
Single
" 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
" 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
" Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "
Tom Cotton
Weapon
Stop
Simple
" 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 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 have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership. "
Tom Cotton
Line
Confidence
Always
" 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
" Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face new risks of privacy, in addition to changing safeguards that might need to be relaxed in an emergency situation? "
Tom Cotton
Technology
Change
Privacy
" 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