75 Quotes by Michael Bennet

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

What I came away with last week was a very strong sense that the kids had been marooned up there. They're in a place where opportunities continue to shrink and were going to continue to shrink and that creates a frame of reference for what it is possible to achieve. It begins to lower the standards of expectation for your life.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

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

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

Our goal was to not let them have any runs. We let them have one run and that's what you get. They're that good, they can strike so fast.

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

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

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.