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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.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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 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
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

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