John Hickenlooper Quotes

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John Hickenlooper

Profession : Politician

Birth : February 7, 1952

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.

John Hickenlooper

The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.

John Hickenlooper

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

John Hickenlooper

I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.

John Hickenlooper

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

John Hickenlooper

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

John Hickenlooper

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

John Hickenlooper

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

John Hickenlooper

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

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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.

John Hickenlooper

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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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.

John Hickenlooper

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

John Hickenlooper

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!

John Hickenlooper