Richard Lamm
Richard Lamm
Richard Douglas "Dick" Lammis an American politician, writer, Certified Public Accountant, college professor, and lawyer. He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democratand ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
wise political enough
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
justice generations tradition
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
impact office denver
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.
thinking doctors people
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.
senior retirement thinking
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.
country people should
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
doctors practice medicine
America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.
party past thinking
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.
law minorities might
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
greatness engineering world
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.
thinking people quality
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.
debt next maintaining
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
political president needs
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
party reform democratic
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.