Quotes from Ben Sasse

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.

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 don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn't paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that's right around the corner.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

You know, my Uber driver rating is 10,000. People tell me it's the best rating. It's fantastic, believe me.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

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.

The American work ethic is, thankfully, still deeply engraved in rural Nebraska souls. This is who we are, and we here in Nebraska have far more to teach Washington, D.C. than Washington, D.C. has to teach us.

The nature and scope of security threats in the cyber era are four-dimensional compared to the early nuclear age.

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.

Since arriving in Washington in January 2015, I have pushed for a strategic framework that clearly articulates how we'll tackle threats in cyberspace.

A family's desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn't make any better, by the way) is perfectly reasonable.

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.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

My average duration in a job is more like six months, because I've done crisis and turnaround stuff for two decades. I've been in a lot of companies and not-for-profits and institutions that were really on fire; in a lot of ways, the Senate is the least urgent, least serious institution I've ever worked in.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

We must repeal Obamacare, but even more, we must replace the worldview that underlies and enabled it.

Republicans must sell a big-cause, problem-solving vision - low-ego and happy-warrior in tone.

I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust that populists are going to defend religious liberty and the rights of creedal minorities.