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Senator Tom Cotton is an American politician and an attorney. He has served in the U.S. Senate as a Junior Senator since 2015. He was born on May 13, 1997. His father worked in the Arkansas Department of Health as a district supervisor.
Tom grew up on his family’s cattle farm. He went to Dardanelle High School and he played on the local basketball teams there.
Tom graduated from high school in 1995 and afterward, he went to Harvard. He majored in government and became a member of the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson. After only three years of study, Tom graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1998.
Tom worked as a federal clerk for a year after graduating from Harvard. He also worked as an associate in a law firm in Washington, D.C. After that, he was enlisted in the army in 2005.
He served in the army as an infantry officer and he rose to the rank of Captain. He was discharged from the Army in 2009.
After that, he entered the Army Reserve from which he was discharged in 2013. After 2 years, he became the junior United States senator from Arkansas in 2015.
Senator Cotton has voted and debated over important security issues in history and policies as a representative United States senate. He voted with the senator of Florida, United States on important bills.
You can find out more about the senator here.
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Tom Cotton Quotes on Politics/Trump/Power
Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they’ll come home at night to take it off.
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Actions have consequences.
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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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Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.
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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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At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
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I’ll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that’s what people are ready for.
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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.
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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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Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
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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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We have to remain vigilant, and we have to continue to take the fight to the terrorist.
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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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Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.
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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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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.
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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.
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Tom Cotton Quotes on Equality/ Economy
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.
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In Congress, I will support pro-growth policies that give the private sector the confidence and certainty to start hiring again. Job creators need a tax code that is permanent, fair, and simple with low rates. They need federal bureaucrats to get off their backs and stand by their sides. And they need a federal government that doesn’t spend, borrow, and inflate its way to bankruptcy.
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Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.
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In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.
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Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.
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The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.
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Tom Cotton Quotes on Defense/ Foreign Policy
We need to be tough once again in the world.
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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.
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Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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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.
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Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.
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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.
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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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Tom Cotton Quotes on Society
Some people say I’m a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they’re right.
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We’re going to make America a better place.
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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.
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I’ll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that’s what people are ready for.
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Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.
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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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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.
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Tom Cotton Quotes on Law & Order
Law and order in our communities doesn’t arise spontaneously.
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We’re not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.
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The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The NSA is not listening to anyone’s phone calls. They’re not reading any Americans’ emails. 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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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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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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I never go ballistic, I’m always measured and tempered.
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