The people I like most are the people who are principled enough on both the right and the left to believe it is their duty to advocate, even though they may lose, and are not committed to their incumbency over the future of America.
I believe zealously in conservative ideals, but Nebraskans want people who get things done, not just those who scream at each other.
Keeping our agricultural sector strong and secure should be a bipartisan concern.
Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.
Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.
The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.
Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.
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.
Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.
Courts do not make the law.
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.
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.
The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.
We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.
I think Medicaid harms people.
I think most Americans believe in a basic social safety net.
Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.
I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.
