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• ‟ Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.

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• ‟ We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

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• ‟ A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

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• ‟ Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of violent extremist groups has grown across multiple continents. From Syria to Somalia to Pakistan, the United States is combating many of these groups - usually with bombs and missiles. Large numbers of innocent people are invariably caught in the middle.

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• ‟ The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.

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• ‟ When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

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