Quotes from John Hickenlooper

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

I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.

Isolationism is not leadership.

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.

As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn't about how many times you yell, 'You're fired,' but instead, how many times you say, 'You're hired.'

On Mother's Day, we take a moment to stop and honor our mothers for all they do. It has been my privilege to know mothers who have turned incredible loss and pain into tremendous advocacy and greater social change.

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.

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated our allies. Under his administration, real people are being hurt.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

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

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

This is the essence of the American Dream - in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead.

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.

This country is built on free speech.

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.