John Hickenlooper Quotes
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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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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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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.
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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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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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Many of the basic lessons of business, such as the critical value of customer service or measuring risk against reward when investing capital, have essential application in government, but not in a vacuum.
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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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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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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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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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In terms of all kinds of things, in terms of educational reform, in terms of health care, transportation, Colorado has a chance to be a national model.
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Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.
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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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I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.
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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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If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.
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Colorado is known for many great things.
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Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.
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This country is built on free speech.
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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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There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.