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John Hickenlooper's Profile

Brief about John Hickenlooper: By info that we know John Hickenlooper was born at 1952-02-07. And also John Hickenlooper is American Politician.

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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.

Tags: Grow, Powerful, Ready

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.

Tags: Forward, Moving, Someone

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

Tags: City, Face, Public

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

Tags: America, Attracting, Earth

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

Tags: Far, Future, Past

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Tags: Honeymoon, Position, Subjective

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

Tags: City, Hire, Run

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

Tags: Become, Rapidly

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

Tags: Continue, Growth, Seeing

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.

Tags: Lost, Successful, Time

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.

Tags: Hard, Run, Trying

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.

Tags: Money, Put, Time

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.

Tags: Advantage, Change, Country

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.

Tags: Energy, Issue, Serious

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.

Tags: Good, Small, Thinking

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.

Tags: High, Money, Public

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.

Tags: Hard, Money, Smart

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.

Tags: Career, Life, Successful

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.

Tags: Business, Judge, Success

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.

Tags: Car, Small, Time
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