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
senate united
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.
devoted education kept life
He devoted his whole life to education. He kept on giving, even after he retired.
peace war heart
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
firsts poor obligation
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
debt next maintaining
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
happen hire illegal immigrants knows lawn people recognize society ubiquitous
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 you'll get.
antagonism blessing competing curse history individual languages nation society survive
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.
education kids loved work worked
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.