Michael Bennett Quotes & Sayings

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. — Michael Bennett

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

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure. — Michael Bennett

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. — Michael Bennett

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

You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don't control, but always for the strength of trying. — Michael Bennett

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. — Michael Bennett