If Iran contests control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, we will obliterate them.
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Former senators
Let's try a diplomatic solution. I think it's going to fail.
If the plan envisions the Sunni Arabs – yes, if the Sunni Arabs do it. Can you imagine if Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates invest $300 billion in Iran? That would tell me that Iran has changed.
I think this is going to happen in 2026… and it can't happen until Iran's in a box. If we get a deal, if we get a deal, Iran will be in a box. If we don't get a deal… Iran will be in a box.
If we don't get Iran in a box, we're in trouble. So, let's do it.
Because, before, I thought the money was coming from the West. If the West funds Iran, I think that would be a Marshall Plan with a Nazi still in charge for Germany. If the plan envisions the Sunni Arabs – yes, if the Sunni Arabs do it.
I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is.
We can't, you know-- we gotta realize that their people want to blow us all up and kill us and they're coming if-- we don't stop them.
If the money comes from the Sunni Arab world, I hope it happens. It would mean that the Sunni Arabs believe that Iran has changed to the point they want to be a business partner.
To the Iranians, if you're listening, when you use Hezbollah to attack Israel, I think the new policy will be, we will attack Iran.
If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force. The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz. We'll charge a fee for all those who go through – through to pay for the operation.
We're not giving any money to Iran that can change the course of history to try diplomacy. Is the MOU problematic? Yes. I would rather try diplomacy than take it off the table. The money Iran gets is not going to change the future of Iran.
Of course, we did not accomplish everything we set out to do. No administration does. Some of the exhibits reflect unfinished business, in some cases, my own shortcomings and mistakes, in some cases because - as a sign I kept on the…
We need to get serious about this before it’s too late.
Fifty years ago, we never would have given the Soviets the kind of leeway we give China: the access they have to our economy and our information, the dependence they enjoy from our supply chains.
The politics are so toxic, the more you talk about this party, that party, what candidate and this candidate.
We need to do permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.
We’ve learned, due in part to recent history, that it’s easier to get into a war than it is to get out.
The problem is that the President has decided to use that military force and significantly deplete our defense arsenal for his own pet projects.
Here we are, tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, of American taxpayer dollars spent. Gas prices are well over $4 a gallon. Hard-working American families crushed under tens of billions of dollars in soaring energy prices, and…
Providing federal funding for election administration would give state and local election offices additional resources to administer elections and respond to election security threats.
“There is no vote that we will take in this body today that will make the nation stronger than just dads loving their kids, and spending time with them, and helping them know how to be able to walk with God, live a patriotic life, and to…
Healthy families make healthy communities make a healthy nation,” said Lankford on the floor. “If dads back away from their families, families get weaker, communities get weaker, the nation gets weaker. If dads are engaged with their kids…





