American - Politician | February 7, 1952 -
People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. I think a lot of that is directly - you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads.
John Hickenlooper
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I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.
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In terms of all kinds of things, in terms of educational reform, in terms of health care, transportation, Colorado has a chance to be a national model.
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We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.
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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
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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.
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