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.

For a Nebraska kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nebraska football was a quasi-religion, so I ran out to get The Omaha World-Herald every morning, salivating for the sports page. My dad, however, required that I read one front page story and one editorial before I was allowed to turn to the sports.

When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house... but we never used it.

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

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.

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.

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

Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.

Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody.

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.

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.

My life is too mundane for anyone to write up.