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Richard Lamm Quotes

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade Picture Quote #1

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that Picture Quote #1

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Diversity’ is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A ‘diverse,’ peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don’t fully recognize that when you build a road you’re doing more than building a road - you’re building the future development of your city. And, that’s what’s never dawned on people. It still doesn’t, in a way Picture Quote #1

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change Picture Quote #1

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency Picture Quote #1

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Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don’t really mean our immigration law Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people Picture Quote #1

A nation can’t get strong on political pablum Picture Quote #1

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor Picture Quote #1

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I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade (Richard Lamm Quotes) Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that (Richard Lamm Quotes) Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves. (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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. (Richard Lamm Quotes) It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) Diversity’ is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A ‘diverse,’ peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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. (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don’t fully recognize that when you build a road you’re doing more than building a road - you’re building the future development of your city. And, that’s what’s never dawned on people. It still doesn’t, in a way. (Richard Lamm Quotes) Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing. (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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. (Richard Lamm Quotes) God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever. (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 (Richard Lamm Quotes) I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change (Richard Lamm Quotes) You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency (Richard Lamm Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people (Richard Lamm Quotes) A nation can’t get strong on political pablum (Richard Lamm Quotes) A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor (Richard Lamm Quotes)

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