John Hickenlooper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Football #Justice #Political
We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Growth #Colorado #Rapids
America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.
-- John Hickenlooper

#America #People #Earth
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Past #Cities #Denver
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Issues #People #Campaigns
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Giving #Judging #Enemy
Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Running #Creating #People
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#New Orleans #Looks #Devastation
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Issues #Environmental #Energy
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Couple #Mean #Thinking
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.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Powerful #People #Colorado
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Subjectivity #Honeymoon #Position
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Moving #Cities #Trying
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Running #Cities #People
"I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Thinking #Firsts
"One of the best things about ***** legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Thinking #Marijuana #People
"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."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Thinking #Marijuana #Anxiety
"One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Brain #Concern
"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Cash #Want
"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."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Packaging #Size
"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Addiction #Looks
"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."
-- John Hickenlooper

#War #Kids #Marijuana
"We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Responsibility #Marijuana #Trying
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
-- John Hickenlooper

#Cities #Citizens #Faces
"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, ***** "dilutes what you're trying to do."
-- John Hickenlooper

#Marijuana #Healthy #Trying

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