Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. Tom Cotton More Quotes by Tom Cotton More Quotes From Tom Cotton Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off. Tom Cotton police home morning night 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 true-happiness women happiness men 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 hard-work work people world Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right. Tom Cotton people-say some-people man people 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 new now left men I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups. Tom Cotton stairs groups 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. Tom Cotton cannot security safe america 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. Tom Cotton i-am now nuclear-power power 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 phone you privacy reading 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 passion politics business men 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. Tom Cotton support matter said home 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 support strength leadership world 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 carry small tools travel Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously. Tom Cotton our arise law order 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 me you decision believe What you did do with your grocery card, discount card is much more invasive to your privacy than what the NSA does. Tom Cotton your more you privacy Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military. Tom Cotton soldiers own torture military 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 best you support ideas At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life. Tom Cotton political college life way I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for. Tom Cotton you election truth people
