All Richard Lamm Quotes
- 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… Absorptive
- 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… America
- Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. 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… Across
- To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations. Across
- I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse. All
- A nation can't get strong on political pablum. Get Strong
- A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor. First Obligation
- America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford. Afford
- American public policy is run on a myth. American
- Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that. Hate
- Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. American
- The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. Democratic
- The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture. Change
- We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. Been
- 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… Alive
- 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… Adult
- Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. Amnesty
- Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. Cheap
- You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency. Check
- America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and… America
- I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social… Been
- I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired… Alien
- I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous… Alive
- I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out… America