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Benjamin E. Sasse

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
We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
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Debate Differences Too Much
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
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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People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It’s not very helpful.
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Defend Everything Kids People Thinking Vote
[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
What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
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Fight Fighting Happen Senate
In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict – and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate – it’s a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or – winner-take-all politics.
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Different Mean Peaceful
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in [Vladimir] Putin’s defense of his cronyism. There’s no moral equivalency there.
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Country Freedom History Thug
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 didn’t go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they’d let me play.
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Academics Crappy Enough Sports
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
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
$Benjamin E. Sasse Quote - Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.$

Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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Alliance Greatest Military Nato Objective World
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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Issues Leadership Moral President
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
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Celebrate Enemy Putin

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