“Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed [параллельн.конструкция]. We’re not going into Syria.”
“Our big mission is getting rid of ISIS. That’s where it’s always been. But when you see kids choking to death, you watch their lungs burning out [перечисление], we had to hit him and hit him [лексич.повтор] hard.”
“It’s very tough to give that final go-ahead when you know you’re talking about human life. We went back and forth, and also back and forth [лексич.повтор] about severity. We could [модальн.гл. "can"] have gone bigger in terms of targets and more of them, but we thought this would be the appropriate first shot.”
“We hope he won’t do any more gassing.”
“We’re not exactly on the same wavelength with Russia, to put it mildly. Putin must [модальн.гл. "must"] see what a barbarian this guy is, and it’s a very bad symbol for Russia with this guy gassing children and using barrel bombs.”
“I don’t need more pause about Iran. It was the single worst deal ever. It’s a disgrace that a deal like that was even signed. It made Iran a power from a country that was ready to fall apart [параллельн.конструкция].”
“Iran won’t honor its deal. Instead of saying, ‘Thank you very much for saving our country,’ they’ve been emboldened.”
“I knew I was left a mess, but it’s worse than I thought [сравнение].”
“No. I’m very disappointed that I was surveilled and so was my campaign. That’s not supposed to be happening, but I’ve been proven right.”
Слова с негативной окраской: choking, gassing, barbarian, bombs, death, disgrace, fall apart, mess.
Слова с позитивной окраской (их, очевидно, меньше): honour, emboldened.