John Hickenlooper Quotes
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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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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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The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.
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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 was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.
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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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In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.
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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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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 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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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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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.
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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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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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Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
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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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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
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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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Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
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This country is built on free speech.
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Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.