Words matter. These are the best Jeff Fortenberry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.
People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.
My first responsibility is to keep America safe.
Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.
Respect and a gentlemanly character – those are marks of a Nebraskan.
So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.
You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That’s not fair. It’s not American.
Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.
When you’re just focused on nutrition and hunger, that’s a harder, harder lift in isolation.
By keeping your eye on the ultimate goal, you lean into the mess and try to make the outcome a little better.
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of ‘if.’ It is a matter of ‘when.’
Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service – and, perhaps most importantly, the courage – to help renew our country.
Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.
No one should have to live in fear.
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I’ll never forget what he said. He said, ‘Let’s get this over with.’
I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there’s never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you’d like to have.
The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that’s sometimes tough in the environment we’re in.
You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.
I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.
Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and I could not ask Nebraskans to pay for poor governance elsewhere.
I thought incorporating Columbus and Platte County into the 1st District was a good idea.
My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.
Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.
There is a need for a vision that’s compelling and uplifting, especially in a time when people are worried. At the same time, in this era, hard work and lofty rhetoric are not going to compel you to the presidency.
You cannot deny reality: that ISIS is systematically attempting to exterminate Christianity, to exterminate the Yazidi community, to exterminate other religious minorities in vast areas in Iraq and Syria.
The tax code is weighted toward the ultra-wealthy and ultra-wealthy corporations and has created an offshore aristocracy of people who can afford to hire an army of accountants and lawyers. This shifts the tax burden to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others.
That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that’s the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle… you have no basis on which to build.
The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.
I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security – the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.
It’s particularly incumbent in the Middle East on Sunni Arab nations to fight for values, to fight for the protection of innocent life, to fight for the principles of civilization and stability and order itself.
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
I don’t fund county roads.
With the consent of the people, I will seek to continue service in Congress for the well-being of our state and our nation.
While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.
The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.
The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
