Michael Bennet Quotes

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Michael Bennet

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 28, 1964

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.

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Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

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We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

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Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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