Words matter. These are the best Ben Sasse Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.
Being stuck in adolescence – that’s a hell. ‘Peter Pan’ is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.
You know, my Uber driver rating is 10,000. People tell me it’s the best rating. It’s fantastic, believe me.
Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.
Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.
The word deepfake has become a generic noun for the use of machine-learning algorithms and facial-mapping technology to digitally manipulate people’s voices, bodies and faces. And the technology is increasingly so realistic that the deepfakes are almost impossible to detect.
I’m often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.
Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.
Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody.
If the Republican party becomes the party of David Duke, Donald Trump, I’m out.
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.
I do worry that we’re failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we’re failing to distinguish between production and consumption.
Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play ‘helicopter parent’ to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.
I think we are doing a bad job of helping our kids understand that they have huge resiliency.
Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.
Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.
Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning.
I’m a politician who has to for a time serve in public life, and I get death threats. And it is what it is because you’ve put yourself out there in the public square.
We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that’s what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.
We must energetically tackle the significant problems the voters rightly want Washington to be addressing.
If you’re not ten minutes early where I’m from, my dad chews you out.
Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.
Persevering and getting through hardship makes you tough, and at our house we celebrate stitches. As long as we didn’t do permanent damage to their spine that’s going to have lasting effect, we applaud and celebrate stitches at our house.
With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn’t cheap. At best, the price of doing business in China is silence; at worst, it’s reading talking points straight from the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is not subtle about it.
I don’t think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.
We must repeal Obamacare, but even more, we must replace the worldview that underlies and enabled it.
Some of the United States’ enemies now assume, perhaps rightly, that we hate each other so much that we’d sooner collaborate with them than do the difficult work of listening to each other. It doesn’t need to be this way – but national recovery won’t come from Washington. It has to start with you.
The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan’s first term.
Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.
We have judges in the American system and they take on a black robe where they are supposed to shield their partisan preferences. They are not red or blue state judges. They are judges.
I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net.
Planned Parenthood can’t hide their sickening abortion business behind a ‘safe, legal and rare’ slogan.
Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents’ claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America’s internal fighting – and our increasingly siloed news consumption – more than Vladimir Putin.
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.
I believe zealously in conservative ideals, but Nebraskans want people who get things done, not just those who scream at each other.
In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers to 1960s-era bureaucracies as they break down.
There were giant scale barriers to becoming a nuclear power, whereas launching a cyberattack requires only some coding capability, a laptop and an Internet connection.
The longest-term thought many people have in D.C. is how can I be sure I don’t do anything that so annoys either my base or my general electorate that I might not be able to get my job back? I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it.
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.
It doesn’t matter whether the challenge we face is large or small, whether it’s a statewide disaster or a crisis just on our own block – Nebraskans face it with courage, goodwill, and the unwavering conviction that we are part of one community of neighbors and friends.
Politics matter, but politics can’t come first. If politics come first in your life, something is wrong with you. It’s a sad thing.
The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice in the United States. Sadly, it seems woke capitalism stops at the water’s edge.
Obamacare cannot be fixed and Republicans must not extend this disastrous legislation.
At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.
Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.
When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house… but we never used it.
The #MeToo movement doesn’t belong to Republicans or the Democrats. The #MeToo movement belongs to women who are having the courage to come forward and say this is wrong. People should be protected. We want that for all of our daughters and all of our sisters. We also want there to be rights for the accused.
Work gives you meaning. Work turns you into a servant to your family and to your neighbors and to your local community.
Well, I think it’s clear that the climate is changing. I think reasonable people can differ about how much and how rapidly. But I think it’s clear that it’s changing and it’s clear that humans are a contributing factor.
Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history – not only because it isn’t true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically – that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.
Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
The nature and scope of security threats in the cyber era are four-dimensional compared to the early nuclear age.
The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It’s messy. And it’s complicated. And there are places where it’s going to overreach.
