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I think I’m one of five people in the Senate who’s never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

Benjamin E. Sasse

The vast majority of that is health entitlements – Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There’s also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
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Entitlement Fundamentality Health Security Thing
Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don’t have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we’re doing it in a thoughtful way that’s thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we’re going to have against jihadists.
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Thinking Thoughtful Years
We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.
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America Commitment Retirement
Let’s be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin’s regime? Not at all.
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Mistakes Putin Regimes
The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
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Affirm Freedom Friends No Speech
I don’t understand what the president’s [Donald Trump] position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and [Vladimir]
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Country Military President
What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
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Fight Fighting Happen Senate
I don’t think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that’s all campaign all of the time and it’s helpful, now that we’ve moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.
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America Jobs Thinking
We’re not at war with all Muslims, we’re at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.
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Believe Names War
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
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Celebrate Enemy Putin
We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
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Debate Differences Too Much
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.
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Ideas People Political
he U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.
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Conflict Dissent Idea People Political Violence
What’s more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
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Basis Case Constructive Kid Particular Policies
I think I’m one of five people in the Senate who’s never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.
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People Politician Thinking
So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He’s committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.
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