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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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"We have a responsibility and an obligation to do everything we can to try to make this work." -- John Hickenlooper
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"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
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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
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do." -- John Hickenlooper
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"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
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction." -- John Hickenlooper
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For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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America is always attracting people, from all over the earth. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. -- John Hickenlooper
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue. -- John Hickenlooper
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"One of the best things about marijuana 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
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. -- John Hickenlooper
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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon. -- John Hickenlooper
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"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
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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
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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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
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The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. -- John Hickenlooper
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The world has become rapidly more competitive. -- John Hickenlooper
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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city. -- John Hickenlooper
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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. -- John Hickenlooper
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"I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step." -- John Hickenlooper
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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?" -- John Hickenlooper
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If you want to persuade someone, listen and listen again, and ask them to restate it several times. -- John Hickenlooper