Michael Bennet Quotes

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.

I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.