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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.

Richard Lamm

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.

Tags: civilisation, engineering, engineers, law, lawyers

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.

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.

Tags: government, time, christmas, want

About Author
Richard Douglas Lamm (August 3, 1935 – July 29, 2021) was an American politician, writer, and attorney. He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996.
Lamm was a Certified Public Accountant and was the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Tags: politics

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

Richard Lamm

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

Tags: justice, me, tradition

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

Richard Lamm

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

Tags: technology, health, caring

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.

Richard Lamm

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.

Tags: life, day, science

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

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.

Tags: government, christmas, time, want

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 sophistica...

Richard Lamm

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 sophistica...

Tags: society, end, aging

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...

Richard Lamm

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...

Tags: technology, good, health

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

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.

Tags: technology, start, moral

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

Richard Lamm

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

Tags: better, care, belief

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

Richard Lamm

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

Tags: nature, god, american

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Richard Lamm

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Tags: relationship, know, sure

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 fish...

Richard Lamm

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 fish...

Tags: water, pressure, dying

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...

Richard Lamm

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...

Tags: history, conflict, opinion