Tom Cotton

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.

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.

There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.

America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.

What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.

Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.

It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.

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.

If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

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.

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.

We want the president to act to keep America safe.

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.

The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed.

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.

Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.

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.

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.

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.