Ben Sasse Quotes

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

We're going to have to take the best of the liberal agenda and the best of the conservative agenda and create an American agenda.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

What Republicans have to get away from is just worrying about the next election and start thinking about what is good for the country down the road.

The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It's about true change.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

If you really want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic because we give you a better economy.

Republicans are not going to replace left wing social engineering with right wing engineering.

Conservatives should be in power [only] when the country has no problems.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

[The Republican Party is] a party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

Conservatives believe that some problems have no solution, that they can only be mitigated at best. Liberals believe that most every problem has a government solution.

I am for "Peace, retrenchment, and reform," the watchword of the great Liberal party thirty years ago.

I hope to see no in-fighting and lots of cooperation. We can either all be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I think we will all work together well on the same team.

Though she is a proud native of one of the most famously liberal cities in the country, Feinstein has earned a reputation over the years in the Senate as someone eager to work across the aisle with Republicans.

The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they're going to comport themselves and how they're going to run things.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.