Michael Bennet Quotes

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Michael Bennet

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 28, 1964

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.

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Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.

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We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact, we can't and have this country be what this country really can be.

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Anyone who thinks they're a progressive should be interested in making progress.

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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.

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We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

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We are strong country with weak leadership.

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A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

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We need to work with the other countries in the hemisphere so that they also have refugee policies in place so that people have a place to go and can escape the violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

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Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

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I think the worst vote I ever cast was a vote to change the rules to lower the threshold for approval of judicial nominations and executive administration nominations.

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I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the state of Colorado, in Camp Amache. You could say that's part of our heritage; I would say it's a shameful part of our heritage and not something we should repeat.

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