John Hickenlooper Quotes
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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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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.
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In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
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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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Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
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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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There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
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I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.
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If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.
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Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.
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Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.
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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
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Infrastructure is more than laying new roads and expanding transit: it's running the fiber and deploying new technologies for reliable, affordable Internet in every part of the state.
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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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Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.
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I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
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To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.
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Voters are tired of us kicking the can down the road, because they know it's going to land in a pothole.
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This country is built on free speech.
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I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.