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
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.
mean law world
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
believe faces facts
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
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.
way ideals
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.
hate knows love-hate
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
running myth policy
American public policy is run on a myth.
america want asks
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
firsts poor obligation
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
strong political nations
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
thinking waste months
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
fall ice water
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 fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.