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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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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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
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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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In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
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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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I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.
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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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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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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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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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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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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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There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.
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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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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.