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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

We really need to leave emotion out of this.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

Bashar al-Assad would not even be in office today if it were not for Iran.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I think that this deal has to include in it some assurance to the United States.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I think I was disappointed that 10 years was really the baseline, not 15 to 20.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I think Congress has a special role to play on this.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I do not see how there can be a deal, without access to sites that are suspicious anywhere and promptly.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

The American people need to understand that, they need to understand what we are taking on, here.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

The importance of the U.S. people and the U.S. Congress saying that.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

No one has been able to assure me that this agreement is going to be such that the Iranians are going to say, 'Okay, we are going to give up--we are never going to build a nuclear weapon.'

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

If I were the Iranians, I would say, 'Look, all right, let us cut the best deal we can.'

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

It is tied closely and directly to that.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I know for a fact that my vote, in releasing the sanctions and releasing the cash, is going to result in the death of innocent human beings somewhere in the world.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

It will give us more international support... the international sanctions--and they are the most effective ones--do hinge on a good relationship between us, the EU, and some of the other players.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

We should be prepared to walk, and that you are absolutely right, in a--any negotiation... being ready and willing to walk away if we cannot get the--our minimum requirements is critically important to the negotiations.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Jan 20, 2015

I am yet to be convinced that the Iranians are negotiating to agree to get to a point where they will never have a nuclear weapon.

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