Ben Sasse Quotes

I do not have any firsthand knowledge of foreign interference in the 2016 election.

American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.

I think it's important for people to believe their elections are on the up and up and they aren't being tampered with by anyone, and in this particular instance there's a large body of evidence that at a minimum Russia tried to tamper with our election.

The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States.

The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

I don't think, Donald Trump doesn't think, no one thinks that a foreign entity should be interfering with a foreign election.

I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.

It's pretty clear that Americans have a strong interest in knowing who's trying to influence their vote in elections.

Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.

There is no evidence at all that a voting booth was hacked or one person's vote in America was taken from Trump candidate to Clinton candidate.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

Any country needs to know that there are consequences when they get involved in our elections. And I think that's why it's good that the investigations are going on and we're analyzing and we're looking into all of that, and I think we need to manage it accordingly.

The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process. Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.

Despite the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in our presidential election, President Donald Trump and Republican leadership seem wholly uninterested in examining how and why Russia targeted us - and what we must do to prevent it from happening again.

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

We do need to get to the bottom of what Russia did and their interference in the election. And we need to also figure out how the Obama administration failed so miserably to allow Russia to have this type of impact in our country.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

I don't care if you're Democrat. I don't care if you're Republican. We need to make sure that, you know, people in other countries don't have any impact on our elections.

You don't need to be a trained investigator to grasp the blatantly obvious fact that the funding of the Steele dossier by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a crucial piece of information that should have been revealed to the FISA Court.