Tom Cotton
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
Tom Cotton

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
Tom Cotton

Actions have consequences.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don't consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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
Tom Cotton

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.'

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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?

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.

Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton

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.