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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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
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In restaurants, you never have enough money, you're taking a very diverse group of people and building them into a team with a common purpose.
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I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.
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It's one of the most unusual things I've heard of in years.
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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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The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue.
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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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I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.
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"One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"
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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.
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"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting."
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"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."
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"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."