Quotes by Tom Cotton

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.

Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.

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?

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.

The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.

I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do.

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 need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

We want the president to act to keep America safe.