Ben Sasse

“Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.”

“I think Medicaid harms people.”

“Obamacare is a big deal to me. It's terrible legislation.”

“My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.”

“My life is too mundane for anyone to write up.”

“The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Democrats have long held an advantage over Republicans on health care, mostly due to a perceived empathy problem in my party.”

“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.”

“My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.”

“Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be hired and fired by the people. Don't like the laws? Fire the lawmakers.”

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

“Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they live in.”

“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.”