John Hickenlooper Quotes
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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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When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.
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In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
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Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, 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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I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.
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Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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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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I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.
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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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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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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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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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In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.
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If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.
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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
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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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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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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
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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.
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When someone's kind of a braggart to the bully... it makes me on edge just because I live that, and I don't think that's a model we want for our kids in this country.
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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.