Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.

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.

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.

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

When I got inaugurated in 2010, OneRepublic donated their time and played for the inauguration. And my stepfather, who is 86, came out. He usually goes to bed at eight o'clock, but he stayed for the entire concert. It was awesome.

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

A fundamental way to build and expand our middle class and economy is to create a modern and well-paid workforce.

Isolationism is not leadership.

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

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

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

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

If you ask me about Donna Lynne, she's one of the flat-out most talented people I've ever worked with, and I've worked with some pretty talented people.

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.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

On Mother's Day, we take a moment to stop and honor our mothers for all they do. It has been my privilege to know mothers who have turned incredible loss and pain into tremendous advocacy and greater social change.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

While some people simply want to villainize the private sector, the fact is that the private sector drives jobs growth; we need to channel the energy and innovation of employers to generate opportunities for the entire labor market.

Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.

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.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

To a certain extent, people's behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.

Democrats must say loudly and clearly that we are not socialists.

I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.

I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

It's crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.

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.

The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation's health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.

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.

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.

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.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

Colorado is known for many great things.

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

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.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

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.

We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.

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.'

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.