Quotes by Richard Lamm

“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.”

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

“I dont think growth pays its own way.”

“It will be at the minimum a moderate issue, one of the tip five issues for Republican voters, ... At the extreme end it could be the issue that affects the Republican Party.”

“With the mayor, people recognize that illegal immigrants are so ubiquitous in our society that it could happen to anybody. You hire a lawn crew, someone to come in and redo your basement, who knows what youll get.”

“He was the embodiment of a master educator who loved kids and had a passion for teaching.”

“He devoted his whole life to education. He kept on giving, even after he retired.”

“He didnt work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.”

“I am convinced that the McCain-Kennedy bill is an amnesty.”

“Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we dont really mean our immigration law.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

I think were 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.

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.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.