Richard Lamm Quotes
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.
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.
I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
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.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
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.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
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.
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.
All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
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.
