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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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.
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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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I talk all the time about the importance to the metro area of the Rocky Mountains and the Western heritage of cowboys and ranching.
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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
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If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.
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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?
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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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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.