Richard Lamm Quotes & Sayings
61 most famous Richard Lamm quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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 advance it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.”
“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 technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.”
“It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.”
“Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.”
“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.”
“We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.”
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