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.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

Isolationism is not leadership.

John Hickenlooper

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.

John Hickenlooper

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

John Hickenlooper

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

John Hickenlooper

To achieve the kinds of innovations needed to tackle the climate crisis, government must not shun the private sector, but rather must work closely with industry and our nation's great research universities.

John Hickenlooper

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

John Hickenlooper

Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.

John Hickenlooper

Voters are tired of us kicking the can down the road, because they know it's going to land in a pothole.

John Hickenlooper

In terms of all kinds of things, in terms of educational reform, in terms of health care, transportation, Colorado has a chance to be a national model.

John Hickenlooper

Colorado is known for many great things.

John Hickenlooper

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

John Hickenlooper

The one thing that I don't think the Obama administration gets anywhere near enough credit for is the high level of administrators. They meet all the time so they can synergize the federal investments. That's the way any corporation would do it.

John Hickenlooper

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

John Hickenlooper

In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more - no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.

John Hickenlooper

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

John Hickenlooper

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If we ever hope to change that, we must begin by owning our past and acknowledging the shame, the sin, the injustice, and the ongoing consequences of enslaving an entire race of people.

John Hickenlooper

John Hickenlooper Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Isolationism is not leadership.

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.

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

To achieve the kinds of innovations needed to tackle the climate crisis, government must not shun the private sector, but rather must work closely with industry and our nation's great research universities.

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.

Voters are tired of us kicking the can down the road, because they know it's going to land in a pothole.

In terms of all kinds of things, in terms of educational reform, in terms of health care, transportation, Colorado has a chance to be a national model.

Colorado is known for many great things.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

The one thing that I don't think the Obama administration gets anywhere near enough credit for is the high level of administrators. They meet all the time so they can synergize the federal investments. That's the way any corporation would do it.

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more - no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.