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
John Hickenlooper quotes about
confronted negatively react recognize serious situation
Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
defined hope past
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.
area cowboys heritage importance metro mountains rocky talk time western
I talk all the time about the importance to the metro area of the Rocky Mountains and the Western heritage of cowboys and ranching.
compared deaths died highway number people
If you look at the number of people who died from terrorism, compared to the number of highway deaths or deaths from smoking, what is safe?
mayor people talented
The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
argue bunch coming hard left people running
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.
rapid rate
We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.
successful vacation boards
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.
subjectivity honeymoon position
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
marijuana different packaging
"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."
new-orleans looks devastation
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.
issues environmental nuclear
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.
couple mean thinking
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.
issues people campaigns
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.