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D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
People
Ugly
Ugly People
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What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
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[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Celebrate
Enemy
Putin
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The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Freedom Of Speech
No Friends
Speech
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We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Debate
Differences
Too Much
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Mistake
Putin
Regimes
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Sports
Enough
Let Me
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
War
Believe
Names
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
People
Politician
Thinking
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Ideas
People
Political
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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 / United States Senator
Different
Mean
Peaceful
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Issues
Moral Leadership
President
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
America
Thug
United States
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
America
Commitment
Retirement
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Thinking
Thoughtful
Years
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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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Jobs
America
Thinking
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I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Childhood
Forget
Thinking
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The president is the president. And every American, regardless of who you voted for, if you voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Donald Duck, I don't really care. We should all hope that the president does a good job, that he's surrounded by wise counselors, that he advances U.S. interests.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Jobs
Wise
Ducks
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Success
Men
Tsa
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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. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Kids
People
Thinking
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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] 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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Military
President
Russia
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There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
War
Fall
Fighting
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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. 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.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Kids
Passing On
Real
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Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. 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 or ideas that are in conflict.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Ideas
People
Political
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It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.
Benjamin E. Sasse / United States Senator
Memories
Moving
Suffering
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