John Hickenlooper Quotes
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In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.
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Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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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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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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Bernie Sanders deserves a lot of credit because he has raised issues.
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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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Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.
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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'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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I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.
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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 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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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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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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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
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Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.
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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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I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive.
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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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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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Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.
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Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.
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In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.