Quotes by Richard Lamm

About Richard Lamm:

Richard Douglas "Dick" Lamm is an American politician, writer, Certified Public Accountant, college professor, and lawyer. He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996.
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I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

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

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 renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Richard Lamm

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Richard Lamm

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.

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The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

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

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

Richard Lamm

The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Richard Lamm

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

Richard Lamm

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Richard Lamm

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Richard Lamm

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Richard Lamm

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

Richard Lamm

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

Richard Lamm

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.

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 even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room...

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 than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angele...

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American public policy is run on a myth.

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We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Richard Lamm

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Lamm
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • AliasesRichard Douglas "Dick" Lamm
  • BornSeptember 12, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsHumanist Of The Year