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.
Sustainable jobs are created by the private sector.
When there’s work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.
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.
Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.
Foreign students… big part of our economy.
When I opened my first brew-pub, I did not include a checkbox on hiring applications that required applicants to disclose criminal convictions. And we were better for it.
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.
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.
You don’t get to choose what your legacy is.
As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn’t about how many times you yell, ‘You’re fired,’ but instead, how many times you say, ‘You’re hired.’
Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.
The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.
We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.
A great country acknowledges it’s mistakes.
Infrastructure is more than laying new roads and expanding transit: it’s running the fiber and deploying new technologies for reliable, affordable Internet in every part of the state.
What I want most is for my son to be proud of me.
We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.
This is the essence of the American Dream – in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead.
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.
I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I’m on loan to public service.
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people’s rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can’t be trusted.
There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn’t always in the best interest of the party.
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.
Government doesn’t have a high tolerance for failure.
It’s crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.
We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.
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.
Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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