John Hickenlooper quotes

John Hickenlooper is an American politician, businessman, and former geologist who served as Governor of Colorado and is currently a U.S. Senator. Known for his moderate stances and bipartisan approach, he has played a significant role in both state and national politics. He continues to advocate for pragmatic solutions on issues like healthcare, the environment, and economic development. Here are 18 of his quotes:

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. (John Hickenlooper)
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward. View quote
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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon. View quote
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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. View quote
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. View quote
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The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get! View quote
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. View quote
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue. View quote
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America is always attracting people, from all over the earth. View quote
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Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point. View quote
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Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon. (John Hickenlooper)
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue. View quote
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And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot. View quote
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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. View quote
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Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. View quote
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Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job. View quote
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Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. View quote
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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. View quote
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John Hickenlooper

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Occupation: American Politician
Born: February 7, 1952
Quotes count: 18