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Tom Cotton: “We conduct diplomacy to protect our interests, not we have an interest in our diplomacy.”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2015
We conduct diplomacy to protect our interests, not we have an interest in our diplomacy.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Senator Cotton emphasizes the purpose of diplomacy in protecting national interests.

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