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“Any deal that's not approved by Congress won't be accepted by Congress. Not now and certainly not in the future.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.”
“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.”
“We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.”
“The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.”
“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.”
“There are still plenty of fighting forces inside of Syria who want to see Assad go. We should have been helping them from the very beginning.”
“We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.”
“The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.”
“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.”
“Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.”
“Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.”
“I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.”
“The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.”