John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr.is a member of the Democratic Party and the 42nd and current Governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper has served as governor since 2011. He serves as a member of the Western Governors' Association, and was the chairman of the National Governors Association, from 2014-2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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Even 12 years ago, the university system in the United States was far and away above anything you could find in most parts of the world.
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Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
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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.
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Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.
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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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You have to recognize that this is the result of the sacrifice and hard work of the employees. In the end, it is the rank and file who find ways to accomplish their tasks with less resources.
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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.
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"On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."
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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.
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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.
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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
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"On unanticipated problems: There's been "a dramatic increase in edibles." And "no one had ever worried about dosage sizes. The original edibles that came out, once you took the packaging off there was nothing to show it was any different than candy."
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"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."