John Hickenlooper Quotes
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
Hickenlooper, John. "What I've Learned." Esquire, Dec. 2005.
At the time Walker made this statement George W. Bush was in the 6th year of his troubled presidency. He was not a strong leader and was generally believed by all but his most loyal supporters to have not told the truth to the American people and many people thought that he and his administration had deliberately lied about many things – especially the Iraq war causes belli. Bush claimed that he had been misled by bad intelligence and that his failure to tell the truth was inadvertent.
He was summarily dismissed by the George W. Bush administration as a result of his reports showing security weaknesses that were the responsibility of the department.
He was very aware that there were three factors inhibiting staff members from speaking up to criticize a plan: Junior officers a reluctant to take a position that is in opposition to their superiors; many attendees see themselves as institutional representatives of their organization or sub organization and are reluctant to take a position different from that which was taken by the organization; after months of planning and the vast majority of other staff in support of a plan, most people are intimidated from raising a dissident point of view especially if they are the only one in the group with that view. Presidents, agency heads, commanders, and other leaders all face this problem. However many do not want any dissident opinions at the late stages of a planning process. The better leaders however do want those outlier opinions especially at the later stages. Eisenhower usually went out of his way to emphasize his desire for honest criticism and chided others who did not like criticism—see {637081} ,
John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and geologist serving as the junior United States Senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Hickenlooper was mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011 and governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019.
