John Hickenlooper Quotes - Page 2

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• From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

  John Hickenlooper

  Subjectivity, Honeymoon, Position

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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

  Powerful, People, Colorado

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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, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

  John Hickenlooper

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  "Hickenlooper Haunted By ‘Backward-Thinking’ Comment". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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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

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

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• "I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Thinking, Firsts

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Cash, Want

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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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

  Marijuana, Addiction, Looks

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• I think the political reality for the Democratic Party is, you know, there are two sides. There's one side saying that we weren't liberal enough and another side saying we're too liberal. I think they're both right.

  John Hickenlooper

  Party, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." 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.

  John Hickenlooper

  Government, Rights, Environmental

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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

  Running, Creating, People

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