Michael Bennet Quotes

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

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.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

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

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

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

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

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

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

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

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.

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.

I believe people I represent still aspire to the idea that our job as a generation is to provide more opportunity to the people coming after us, not less.

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

I think about Aaron Rodgers, he's like Chris Evans before he got the HGH injection in Captain America. But before he was super smart and was still witty and stuff. That's how I see Tom Brady.