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.
bodies endless fiscal holes money pour
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
advanced infinitely marginal medical procedure society surgical treatments
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.
domestic effect petroleum rapid reserves
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.
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.
hate knows love-hate
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
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.
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.