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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.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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
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 real number of the US’ obligations, unfunded obligations that we’re passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion.
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Generate Kids Passing Real
The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
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Affirm Freedom Friends No Speech
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.
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Ideas People Political
he U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.
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Conflict Dissent Idea People Political Violence
What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
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Fight Fighting Happen Senate
I don’t think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that’s all campaign all of the time and it’s helpful, now that we’ve moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.
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America Jobs Thinking
Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don’t have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we’re doing it in a thoughtful way that’s thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we’re going to have against jihadists.
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Thinking Thoughtful Years
I think I’m one of five people in the Senate who’s never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.
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$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
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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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
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
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Celebrate Enemy Putin
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
We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
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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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