John Hickenlooper Quotes
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We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
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Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.
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You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
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Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.
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I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.
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I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.
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Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'
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Bernie Sanders deserves a lot of credit because he has raised issues.
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I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.
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The vice president can play a real role in that, in helping solve some of the biggest problems in the country.
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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
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In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.
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We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
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Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.
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We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
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Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
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I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.
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I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive.
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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
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From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.
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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
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Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.
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I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.