Ben Sasse

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals. ”

The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict. ”

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises. ”

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

I think we should have a universal, a shared cultural or societal goal, of universal health insurance coverage. That's completely different from saying the government can solve all of those problems, or that it can micromanage every aspect of the health delivery system. I think we know that it can't do that. ”

I think we are doing a bad job of helping our kids understand that they have huge resiliency. ”

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences. ”

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 cannot let Obamacare expand geographically by setting up state exchanges, nor can we extend Obamacare's unlawful subsidies. ”

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. ”