Richard Lamm

'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other…

— Richard Lamm

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It…

— Richard Lamm

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

— Richard Lamm

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

— Richard Lamm

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

— Richard Lamm

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No…

— Richard Lamm

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different…

— Richard Lamm

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about…

— Richard Lamm

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

— Richard Lamm

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and…

— Richard Lamm

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become…

— Richard Lamm

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology.…

— Richard Lamm

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

— Richard Lamm

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not…

— Richard Lamm

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

— Richard Lamm

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you…

— Richard Lamm

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into…

— Richard Lamm

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1%…

— Richard Lamm

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

— Richard Lamm

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

— Richard Lamm

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could…

— Richard Lamm

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own…

— Richard Lamm

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had…

— Richard Lamm

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do…

— Richard Lamm

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders…

— Richard Lamm