Michael Bennet Quotes

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

Do not completely defeat your opponents. Leave your opponents some dignity with which to walk off the field. They have been elected by some people and you have no right to dismember them… When you do that, you lose all semblance of leadership.

You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.

I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president.

I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.

It's important that we vote, because this is how we can bring about change and bring about reform, and, honestly, I don't see Donald Trump, anything that he's saying to be effective or comprehensive. Instead of really uniting our country - we are the United States of America - he is dividing us.

While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy.

Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a vote for a man of principle and character, for a man who had proved himself capable and courageous and who would lead our country with a combination of dignity, compassion and toughness along a path of progress.

President Trump, in a lot of ways - not just on policy but in terms of style - is everything that Hawaii is not.

I just want everybody to be respected. It shouldn't be politics because for me it's not, one of the most natural things in our society should be to be respectful.

I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.

I think Donald Trump is truly a populist.

Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

I'm a big fan of Donald Trump's.