Quotes by Tom Cotton - Page 3

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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Iran
Nuclear
Tomorrow
Approve
Today Tomorrow Never
Constitutional
Weapon
Nuclear Weapon
Ten Years
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There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Army
Doubt
No Doubt
Operations
Units
Disappointments
Iraqi
Performed
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Al Qaeda
Atrocities
Camps
Terrorist
Deployed
Employ
Organizations
Inflict
Overseas
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In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Depends
Economy
Military
Prosperity
Stability
World Economy
Domestic
Provides
Requires
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Travel
Arms
Encryption
Explosives
Terror
Tools
Attacks
Carry
Cover
None
Overseas
Provide
Requires
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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 / United States Representative
Iran
November
Weakness
Joint
Negotiations
Privately
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If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Defeated
Inspire
Iraq
Islamic
Libya
Losing
Syria
Attacks
Nearly
Cell
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Republican Party
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In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Cells
Empty
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Interrogation
Opinion
Safe
Bay
Beds
Further
In My Opinion
Sending
Terrorists
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Cult
Demographics
Middle East
Stability
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It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Important
Party
Presidential
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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?
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Technology
Privacy
Relaxed
Situation
Addition
Set
Emergency
Safeguards
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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 / United States Representative
Adoption
Congress
Critical
Founding
International
Agreed
Clearly
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Fathers
Republicans
Founding Fathers
Laid
Principle
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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 / United States Representative
Baghdad
Iran
Neighborhood
Al
Backed
District
Operating
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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 / United States Representative
Arrested
Unfortunate
Claim
Convicted
Crimes
Vast
Identified
Ignores
Jailed
Perpetrator
Prosecuted
Vast Majority
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Islamic
Offense
Clearly
Intent
Strike
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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 / United States Representative
Accomplished
Achievement
Clinton
Differences
Generations
Significant
Social Policy
Welfare
Welfare Reform
Bill Clinton
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If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Happiness
Women
Access
Divorce
Easy
Easy Access
May
Misery
True Happiness
True
Awaits
Certainly
Choose
Gain
Material
Slide
Trophy
Wives
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The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimately only be defeated by moderate Muslims around the globe, countries like U.A.E. that have led the fight within their own border to promote tolerance.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Brotherhood
Defeated
Islam
Radical
Radical Islam
Tolerance
Within
Al
Border
Countries
Fight
Forces
Globe
Led
Moderate
Muslim
Muslims
Promote
Qaeda
Ultimately
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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 / United States Representative
Decided
Assume
Candidate
Filter
Ultimately
Wins
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Commander In Chief
Draws
Enemy
Lines
Red
Winning
Ask
Calls
Carefully
Ending
Families
Few
Few Things
Merely
Speaks
Warriors
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Constitution
Defense
Federalist
Founding
Men And Women
Papers
Prudent
Thesis
Wisest
Men Women Government
Experienced
Fathers
Women Men Government
Founding Fathers
Hoped
Specifically
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Activity
Bob
Iran
Legislation
Senators
Both Parties
Introduced
Joe
Parties
Region
Specifically
Threats
Throughout
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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 / United States Representative
Commitment
Granted
Iran
Negotiating
Russia
Syria
Broker
Reaffirm
Sphere
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If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Country
Immigration
People
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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 / United States Representative
Ambition
Office
Pursue
Selfish
Rise
Whereas
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Arms
Debate
Iran
Nuclear
Nuclear Arms
White House
Efforts
Failed
Mortal
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Benghazi
Careless
Classified Information
Fbi
Genuine
Information
President
Serious
Term
Attacks
Director
Classified
Concerns
Extremely
Handling
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Jim
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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 / United States Representative
Decades
Excuse
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Hard Work
Proud
Savages
Treated
Work Hard Work World
Work World People
Attack
Bay
Conduct
No Excuse
Include
Shown
Soldiers
Terrorists
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Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Force
Groups
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
International
Medical Care
Observation
Prayer
Red
Transparent
Bay
Cross
Daily
Manner
Participate
Receive
Regular
Repeatedly
Visited
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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 / United States Representative
Afghanistan
Justified
Unnecessary
Wrong Decision
Officer
Proved
Soldiers
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Collecting
Company
Data
Nsa
Phone Calls
Plot
Privacy
Reading
Reasonable
Terrorist
American
Anyone
Calls
Simply
Phone
Event
Expectation
Quickly
Search
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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.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Agency
Cia
Crucial
Guantanamo
Importance
Pakistan
Bin
Obtained
Raid
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It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy... we play an important role. And I'm going to continue to play that role, whoever is president.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Candidates
Presidential
Senate
Remember Important Will
Crafting
Important Role
Interact
Whoever
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It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and disagreements between our countries in NATO and within the United States or any other Western European country. And it's something the United States obviously must be on guard against.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Country
Democracy
Effort
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If you're a doctor, or a scientist, or a computer programmer, it shouldn't matter whether you come from Nigeria, or Norway, or any other country on this earth. Today though we have a system that rewards ties of blood, ties of kin, ties of clan. That's one of the most un-American immigration systems I can imagine.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Country
Immigration
Today
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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 / United States Representative
Calling
Celebrate
Egypt
Islam
Jordan
Forces
Highlight
Large Number
Moderate
Muslims
Percentage
Stand Up
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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 / United States Representative
Granted
Iran
Partners
Russia
Syria
Consequences
Largely
Legitimate
Opposed
Policies
Region
Sphere
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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 / United States Representative
Conquest
Excuse
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Ideology
Islamic
Likes
Narrative
President Obama
Radical
Terrorist
Bay
Earthly
Existed
Motivations
Recruiting
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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 / United States Representative
American Military
Engagement
Factions
Iraq
Military
Seeking
Stability
Worst
Period
Relatively
Pluralistic
Representative
Strides
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Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Leadership
Adversaries
Allies
Belief
Bipartisan
Immense
Influence
Post War
President
President Obama
Stability
Support
Obama
Gives
Unlike
Interests
Long-Standing
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It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
War
Country
Political
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In military terms, if you're not winning, sometimes you are losing. We've seen the Taliban and associated terrorist organizations make gains in recent years. It's time to stop those gains and roll them back. There's a lot of different techniques to do so, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to once again become an ungoverned country from which terrorist organizations can launch attacks against the United States and our citizens.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Country
Military
Winning
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Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better. But our relationship is not good right now because of Vladimir Putin. There are steps that I think that we should be taking that we should have taken under the Obama administration. For instance, providing defensive weaponry to Ukraine. I encourage the President and the administration to take a look at those steps.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
President
Taken
Thinking
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Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. He believes as do I, as do most Americans, that we aren't yet doing enough to take the fight to the Islamic State.That the intervention in Libya was ill-considered and slapdash at the time. And we're living with the consequences of it now. That we have to get tougher when it comes to our intelligence and law enforcement practices to stop Islamic terrorism.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Believe
Fighting
Islamic
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