For months before he passed, my dad would have terrible night sweats, and soak through his sheets, often several times a night. Each time, mom would gently roll him over, replace the sheets, and roll him back - then spend the whole next day washing several sets of sheets, only to repeat the routine each night.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.

To achieve the kinds of innovations needed to tackle the climate crisis, government must not shun the private sector, but rather must work closely with industry and our nation's great research universities.

Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.

I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.

If people think that Colorado is a beacon for artists and creative people who are really talented, I think they're going to be a little happier during the day, and I think they're going to be a little more successful at their job, no matter what their job is.

If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

When someone's kind of a braggart to the bully... it makes me on edge just because I live that, and I don't think that's a model we want for our kids in this country.

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

The policies we pursue to ensure safety and fairness for our citizens need to be applied equally - and people need to feel they are being applied equally - if we are to bring Americans together again.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

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.