A biography for Ben Sassehasn’t been written yet.
“Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.”
“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.”
“We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.”
“Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.”
“I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.”
“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.”
“I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.”
“Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.”
“Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.”
“I believe zealously in conservative ideals, but Nebraskans want people who get things done, not just those who scream at each other.”
“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.”
“I'm a right-wing conservative.”
“I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.”
“I think we are doing a bad job of helping our kids understand that they have huge resiliency.”
“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.”
“The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict.”
“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.”
“Obamacare cannot be fixed and Republicans must not extend this disastrous legislation.”
“Look at trade and automation: two competing but slightly overlapping forces in the shrinking of the duration of jobs right now. We have to be able to talk honestly about how disrupted this world is going to be, and it is crazy to mislead people and say we're going to bring back all of the big factory jobs by creating a protectionist regime.”
“In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This is sixth-grade civics: Congress writes the laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts apply those laws fairly and dispassionately to cases.”