Richard Lamm Quotes

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• The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless…
• America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health…
• Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
• Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and…
• To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
• I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
• A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
• A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
• America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
• American public policy is run on a myth.
• Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
• Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.
• The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
• The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
• We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
• I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when…
• Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want…
• Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
• Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
• You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

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