John Hickenlooper

“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.”

“One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.”

“I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.”

“Foreign students... big part of our economy.”

“Democrats must say loudly and clearly that we are not socialists.”

“When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.”

“My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.”

“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.”

“America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.”

“When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If we ever hope to change that, we must begin by owning our past and acknowledging the shame, the sin, the injustice, and the ongoing consequences of enslaving an entire race of people.”

“I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.”

“A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.”

“Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.”

“We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.”

“Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.”

“Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.”

“Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.”