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The best solution to this crisis appears to be all seven basin states working together to find a solution that honors Tribal sovereignty, supports our agricultural producers, strengthens communities, and protects our most precious resource.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
It is ridiculous Other Democratic senators are still willing to avoid what is a scientific truth and turn away, and subject cities and towns all across this country to the same agony the Marshall fire has caused.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Democratic Colorado Senate is so good, how come all of those senators are trying to get out ? democratic Colorado Senate doesn't attract me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is a disaster, you might as well FedEx the election to Donald Trump.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Trade wars are for losers, let's negotiate (a) better trade deal, but you are not going to win against China in a trade war when they've got 25% of our total debt.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You're not going to win against China in a trade war when they have 25% of our total debt.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have to focus on where Donald Trump is failing, donald Trump is malpractice personified. We've got to point that out. ... Why are we lurching from one international crisis to another ? All things he promised American voters. We have to focus on that and the economy and jobs and training, so that we can promise a future for America that everybody wants to invest in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think there are better ways to unite us, theres no question about that.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
That's my point. You are one of 100, and my natural inclination is to go somewhere where I can create that team.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It would be hard for me -- and I am not saying I couldn't do it and I am not saying my patriotic duty may compel me to do it -- but my character, what activates me, motivates me is building teams and surrounding John Hickenlooper with really talented people, taking big bites out of major challenges and then doing them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think that the bottom line is, if we don't clearly define that we are not socialists, the Republicans are going to come at us every way they can and call us socialists.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I fundamentally disagree that we should do away with the democratic, regulated capitalism that has guided this country for over 200 years.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Democrats must say loudly and clearly that we are not socialists. If we do not, we will end up helping to reelect the worst President in our country's history. Socialism is the most effective attack line Republicans can use against Democrats as long as President Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I understand that Americans are frustrated right now -- that they are hungry for bold change. I understand that our young people, especially, see socialism as an attractive alternative to the political gridlock and economic recession they experienced during their formative years, but it would be a grave mistake to abandon the American entrepreneurial spirit that has always been at our country's core.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For decades, economic policies have shifted to favor the wealthy and the powerful over those who work every day to get by, gains in income and wealth have gone almost entirely to the top 1 % of Americans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My problem is not what I'm selling, it is how do I get that information to the buyer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have great respect for Sen. Bernie Sanders, but I fundamentally disagree that we should do away with the democratic, regulated capitalism that has guided this country for over 200 years.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We must present a bold vision for the future, but we also must acknowledge that the most effective charge Republicans can level against us is 'socialism,'.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is all through collaboration, business and nonprofits. It's Republicans and Democrats. Getting everybody to work. And I think that message that we can achieve progressive goals without this very ideological purity, I think that's a message that people have to hear.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Those voters are waiting for us to come make a pitch, and showing them that we'll give them a better job with a better income, a better future for their kids.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Capitalism is based upon competition, i think we should be aggressively looking at everything we can do to make sure we have more competitive landscapes.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We must own our past, and acknowledge the shame, the sin, the injustice, and the ongoing consequences of enslaving an entire race of people, and we must apologize and that apology should come from the Oval Office.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You can drink it. We did drink it around the table, almost ritual-like, in a funny way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I said,' I promised Jed that we'd go to the movie theater and see this new movie, you want to come ?' And it's an X-movie, and I was sure she wouldn't say no. I made a mistake, and she said,' I'd love to go' because she didn't want to be left alone in the house again. So I took my mother to see' Deep Throat.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I promised, I called a friend in Philadelphia -- and... we didn't know what an X-movie was. We thought it was a little naughty, but we didn't think it was that bad, you've got ta understand, I was 18 years old.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They are never asked that question. Or at least, maybe I have missed it, but women I know feel that is a form of discounting, that they are less likely to win the nomination. That is what I am talking about, people can take it out of context.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I recognize the gratification : When people are really angry, talking about Donald Trump somehow is Donald Trump, but it's not solving the problem, right ? If anything, it's playing into Donald Trump hands.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's my point. You are one of 100, and my natural inclination is to go somewhere where I can create that team.Hickenlooper describes his pitch to voters as a.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I play to win. I don't do something for symbolic benefit and I think a lot of what we have done in Colorado is useful for the conversation, if I run, I am going to run to win. It is not just going to be about making a statement.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It would be hard for me -- and I am not saying I couldn't do it and I am not saying my patriotic duty may compel me to do it -- but my character, what activates me, motivates me is building teams and surrounding Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper with really talented people, taking big bites out of major challenges and then doing them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm probably one of the few, if not the only candidate who's actually been able to bring people together who were in conflict, they were feuding, and get them to put down their weapons, take the time to hear each other and then actually achieve progressive goals through their willingness to work together and create a compromise.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was against it from the beginning because we were worried about a spike in teenage consumption, so we had to put in a system, even though I opposed it, to make sure that we gave it a fair chance to work -- states are the laboratories of democracy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We should, I hope, by March, we spent a lot of time working on it and, you know, we're trying to make sure we make the right decision once.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've just gone from an episode of clinical child abuse, and now we decide that we're going to throw our lot in with what most people think is our most dangerous enemy, who's writing this script ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We haven't come to any conclusions, it is obviously a unique time in America, and one of the things that I do take pleasure in is going back over what we've done in Colorado -- what stuff has worked, what stuff hasn't worked -- and looking at where does that have a broader application ? What are some of the lessons that would have, you know, bigger, more impact, on a broader scale ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
At some time I want to sit down and spend some time to think about it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're trying to get data on it. That's a difficult one to measure.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is one of the great social experiments of the last 100 years. We have to all keep an open mind.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That's not real data, we didn't use to measure it and now we're trying to measure something, so of course we see a lot more.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Trust me, if the data was coming back and we saw spikes in violent crime, we saw spikes in overall crime, there would be a lot of people looking for that bottle and figuring out how we get the genie back in, it doesn't seem likely to me, but I'm not ruling it out.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Tonight we watched as a community was on edge and a sheriff’s deputy was shot while responding to a call in Adams County, we are deeply saddened to learn that the deputy has died from injuries sustained in the shooting. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and the family and friends of the deputy killed.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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