Richard Lamm Quotes

American - Politician Born: September 12, 1935

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. Richard Lamm

Water, Environmental, Pressure, Ice, New

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding. Richard Lamm

Money, Think, Retirement, Insurance

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. Richard Lamm

Good, Technology, Health, Training, Care

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

Work, Education, Money, Loved, Because

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

Technology, Health, Caring, Medical

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

Problems, Political, America, Country

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

Children, Mind, America, New, Become

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

Children, Mind, New, New Deal, Become

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. Richard Lamm

Time, Government, Want, Pay, Christmas

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. Richard Lamm

History, Blessing, Society, Conflict

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. Richard Lamm

Work, Hard Work, Education, Success

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

Love, Learning, Action, More, Jewish

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. Richard Lamm

Technology, Health, Moral, Care, Start

American public policy is run on a myth. Richard Lamm

American, Run, Policy, Myth, Public

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 by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. Richard Lamm

Money, Me, Plant, Impact, Group, Office

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. Richard Lamm

Health, People, Process, World, America

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children. Richard Lamm

Love, Children, Pain, People, Free, Try

The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people. Richard Lamm

Women, Heart, Great, People, Care, Go

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money. Richard Lamm

Money, Black, Aging, You, Endless, Holes

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 in Colorado! But we did. Richard Lamm

Building, Enough, Now, Way, Development

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. Richard Lamm

Politics, Wise, Enough, You, Know, Leave

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. Richard Lamm

Time, Government, Want, Pay, Christmas

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

Law, Rest, World, Immigration, Mean, Big

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 any kind of quality of life is left at all. Richard Lamm

Life, Science, Day, Quality, People

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life. Richard Lamm

Life, Society, Die, Duty, Way, Build

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

Death, Gift, Face, Believe, I Believe

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