Richard Lamm Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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