John Hickenlooper

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

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

— 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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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past. ↗

— 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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From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon. ↗

— 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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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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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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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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