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.
BENJAMIN E. SASSEhe 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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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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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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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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We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
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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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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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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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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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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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[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
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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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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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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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The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
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What’s more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
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