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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

Denial, Needs, Based

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

Elderly, Insurance, Seniors

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

Coverage, Medical, Health

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

Government, Deficits, Tell

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

Doing, Govern, Public Policy

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

Glaciers, Depleted, Very

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

Medical, Health Care Costs

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

Die, Other, Like

We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. Richard Lamm

United States, United

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

Seduced, Fancy, Covering

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition. Richard Lamm

Within, Caused, Clear

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

Itself, Afford, Ask

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that. Richard Lamm

Politics, Love-Hate, Sure

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, Automatically, About

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

Stress, Education, Work

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

Which, Bodies, Black

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

Passionate, Better, Through

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 Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate. Richard Lamm

Doing, I Think, Developing

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

Competing, Tension, Survive

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies. Richard Lamm

Always, Infinitely, Give

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

Hospitals, Medical, I Think

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

Politics, Like, Enough

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

Deficits, Tell, Want

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

Big, Rest, Immigration

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

Worked, Education, Money

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

Gift, Face, Fact

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