Richard Lamm Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.”

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

“Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.”

“The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.”

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

“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.”

“We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”