Quotes from John Hickenlooper

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

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

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.

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.

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

Colorado is known for many great things.

America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.

This is a generous country that realizes people want to work hard.

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.

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.

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.