The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."

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.

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.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are now legal. Two-thirds of the country. I am looking at it as kind of a 10th Amendment, states'-rights issue.

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