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Tom Cotton [1977-0] American

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Politician, United States Senator

Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, Cotton has served in the Senate since January 3, 2015. At age 39, he is currently the youngest U.S. Senator.

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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.		101
At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.		102
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.		103
I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.		104
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.		105
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.		106
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.		107
Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.		108
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.		109
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.		110
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.	Leadership	111
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.		112
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.		113
Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.		114
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.'		115
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.		116
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.		117
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.		118
We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist.		119
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.		120
You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.		121
I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.		122
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.		123
I run a lot every morning.		124
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.'	Birthday, Dating	125
I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them.		126
Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.		201
Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.		202
It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.		203
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.		204
There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.		205
Donald Trump can ultimately make the case for himself.		206
As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.		207
Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.		208
Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.		209
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.		210
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.		211
The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.'	Communication, Intelligence	212
Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.		213
The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed.		214
We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.		215
I'm not going to respond to every single thing that Donald Trump has to say or that Hillary Clinton says.		216
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.		217
The Senate must approve any deal President Obama negotiates with Iran by a two-thirds majority vote.		218
I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.		219
Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.		220
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.		221
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.	Medical	222
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.		223
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.		224
Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.		225
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.		226
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.		301
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.		302
We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.		303
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.		304
The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.		305
If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.		306
Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.		307
Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.		308
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.		309
The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power state with a ballistic missile program.		310
There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria.		311
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.		312
The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.		313
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.		314
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.		315
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.		316
What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does.		317
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.		318
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.		319
There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.		320
If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.		321
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.		322
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.		323
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.		324
My heart goes out, as does every American, when I see the videotape of Jason Rezaian and Amir Hekmati and Saeed Abedini coming back to their families.		325
Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.		326
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.		401
We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.		402
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.		403
Actions have consequences.		404
The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.		405
Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.		406
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.		407
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.		408
I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.		409
What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.		410
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.		411
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.		412
We want the president to act to keep America safe.		413
The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.		414
We need to be tough once again in the world.		415
We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.		416
Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.		417
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.		418
Before the surge started, frankly, after I left Iraq towards the end of 2006, I was worried that we were losing the war. But after the surge, I felt that we succeeded.		419
We're going to make America a better place.		420

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