Jared Polis

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

We want a Colorado that works for everybody.

Colorado is a trade-dependent state.

I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

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.

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.