Tom Cotton Quotes
There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.
Cotton, Tom. Interview by Bob Schieffer. Face the Nation, CBS, 15 Mar. 2015.
This was one of the first instances of the political tactic of Triangulation, which President Clinton used so well to chart a middle course between the left wing of his own party and the Republican right wing extremists in Congress.
In Australia, the Liberal Party is a right wing conservative party, unlike England or the United States.
Ironically he made this statement at a time when the exact same thing was true of the U. S. Republican Party whose internecine problems with the Tea Party was their own kind of bear-pit. Any Republican could be slandered among the Tea Party extremists who like the Iranian extremists took “moderate” as an insult.
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator for Arkansas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.