Jared Polis Quotes
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To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
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No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
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I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.
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Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
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The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.
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There is a great deal of innovation occurring in Colorado, with some of the most brilliant minds and creative startup companies in the world formulating climate-change solutions right in our backyard.
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.
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If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.
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That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.
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When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.
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You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.
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Co-sponsoring a bill is fairly easy, like a group project which you work on with others.
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The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
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In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable health care that they deserve, cannot be accomplished without a robust public option.
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Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.
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Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.
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Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
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I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
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I'm more of the sneaker-wearing, computer geek type.
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Colorado is a trade-dependent state.
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We need to prove to American voters, particularly independent voters who gave us this opportunity to lead, that this is not your grandfather's tax-and-spend Democratic Party.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.