Quotes from Michael Bennet

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

I have a very clear idea of what the Freedom Caucus has done to this country by terrorizing both the Republican Party and the America people.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children's social and emotional development, meeting academic expectations for students with special needs, and finding more minutes of instruction in the week, not fewer, mattered.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

We don't have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don't have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.