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