John Hickenlooper Quotes
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Bernie Sanders deserves a lot of credit because he has raised issues.
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In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.
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Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.
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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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There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
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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 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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We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.
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I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
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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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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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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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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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I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive.
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Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.
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What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.
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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.
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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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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
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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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Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
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Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.
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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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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.