Top 60 Quotes by Richard Lamm

About Richard Lamm

These are some quotes by American author Richard Lamm Politician, who was born on September 12, 1935.

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

Richard Lamm

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Richard Lamm

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

Richard Lamm

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Richard Lamm

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.

Richard Lamm

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

Richard Lamm

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

Richard Lamm

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

Richard Lamm

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

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

Richard Lamm

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Richard Lamm

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