John Hickenlooper Quotes
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We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.
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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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This is a generous country that realizes people want to work hard.
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When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.
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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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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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Isolationism is not leadership.
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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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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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I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.
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Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.
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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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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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I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.
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The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.
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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
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We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.