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.
John HickenlooperThe issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
John HickenlooperA mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
John HickenlooperThere 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.
John Hickenlooper