49 Ben Sasse Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ben Sasse

American Politician

Born: Feb 22, 1972

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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. Ben Sasse

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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. Ben Sasse

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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. Ben Sasse

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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. Ben Sasse

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Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics. Ben Sasse

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

Vision Must Sell Problem-Solving Republicans 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. Ben Sasse

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We must energetically tackle the significant problems the voters rightly want Washington to be addressing. Ben Sasse

Problems Addressing Rightly Significant Must Tackle Voters Want Washington

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience. Ben Sasse

Day Every Day Every State Our See Grit Across Resilience

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people. Ben Sasse

People Entitlement Programs Our Entitlement Programs Empower Reforming Should

Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas. Ben Sasse

Bad Bad Ideas Ideas Democrats Republicans

Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning. Ben Sasse

Innovation States Obamacare Families Closer Moved Centralized Choices Planning United United States Medical Suffocated Eliminated Millions

I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net. Ben Sasse

Safety Believe Think I Think Net Most Safety Net American Social Basic

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. Ben Sasse

Work Rural More Souls Still Than American Thankfully Work Ethic Far Ethic Us Teach Who Washington Engraved Deeply Nebraska Here

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. Ben Sasse

Internet Power Giant Scale Launching Some Only Becoming Were Whereas Capability Requires Laptop Barriers Connection Coding Nuclear Nuclear Power

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. Ben Sasse

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Obamacare cannot be fixed and Republicans must not extend this disastrous legislation. Ben Sasse

Must Obamacare Disastrous Fixed Legislation Cannot Republicans Extend

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

Nature Age Security Threats Era Scope Cyber Compared Nuclear Early