John Hickenlooper Quotes

I am a common man. Why do I need security?

If it were up to me, I wouldn't have security. But Hef thinks I'm naive. He feels I'm vulnerable to kidnapping.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Safety's just danger, out of place.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

We remain essentially a nation under siege.

When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

There is no bullet-proof vest in my size.

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

There is a danger in action. There is a danger in inaction. The people have to decide which is greater…. A 21 year old Moslem Male is a lot more likely to be a terrorist than an 85 year old Norwegian grandmother …. Scrutinize more carefully the people who are in a category that might make them more likely to be a danger.

We cannot measure our safety in terms of miles on a map any more.

When these attacks occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them.

Weakness invites war.

Threats I have faced are unprecedented.