104 Quotes by Ben Sasse

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

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.

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.

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

We must repeal Obamacare, but even more, we must replace the worldview that underlies and enabled it.

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.

Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

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