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

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

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.

We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

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

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.

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.