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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America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

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The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

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Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

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If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

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All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

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To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

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Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher t...

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We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world...

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I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and adv...

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Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

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It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

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A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

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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 things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

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History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

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History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

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The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

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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 Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has a...

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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 and their kids pay for it.

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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

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

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

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Author Bio

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