John Hickenlooper Quotes
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Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
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Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.
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I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.
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You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.
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We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
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Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
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This is a generous country that realizes people want to work hard.
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I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.
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When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.
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For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
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We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
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Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.
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I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.
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Isolationism is not leadership.
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Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
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The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.
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Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.
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Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.
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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
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In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
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I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.