Top 121 Tom Cotton Quotes

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As a senator, I play an important role in crafting fore

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.
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My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.
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I have introduced legislation – with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin – called the ‘Countering the Iranian Threats Act’, specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran’s nefarious activity throughout the region.
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I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It’s good to have a plan for your future; it’s even better to write your plan in pencil.
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At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
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The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.
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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.
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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.
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Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.
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We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.
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Actions have consequences.
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The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote.
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You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.
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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.
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There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.
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Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself.
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Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
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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.
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Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself.
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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.
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It would be very dangerous and unwise to proceed with the Senate Judiciary bill, which would lead to the release of thousands of violent felons.
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Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.
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I think it’s important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any deal that’s not approved by Congress won’t be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.
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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.
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As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.
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The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote.
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We’re going to make America a better place.
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Most of who's left in the administration now are all th

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.
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I’m not going to respond to every single thing that Donald Trump has to say or that Hillary Clinton says.
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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?
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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.
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I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do.
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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.
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Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.
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We’re simply trying to say that Congress has a constitutional role to approve any deal, to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Not today, not tomorrow, not ten years from now.
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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.
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The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It’s simply impossible.
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What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.
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The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as ‘going dark.’
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Some people say I’m a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they’re right.
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Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.
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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.
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I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.
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We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist.
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We’re not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.
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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.
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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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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.
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We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.
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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.
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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.’
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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.’
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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.
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Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.
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I don’t do stairs. And I don’t do groups.
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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.
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We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we’re conducting in Iraq and Syria.
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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.
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I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and

I’ll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that’s what people are ready for.
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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.
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Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that’s kept terrorists off the battlefield and kept America safe. It’s critical role in our national security cannot be overstated.
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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.
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