American - Politician | November 28, 1964 -
Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.
Michael Bennet
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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 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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If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
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I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
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There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.
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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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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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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.
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