Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
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But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
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Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.
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We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
