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
thinking people quality
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.
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.
baby children thinking
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.
thinking doctors people
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.
thinking waste months
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
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.
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.
angeles believe denver developed developing ideal los model
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.
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.
environment immense importance issue
The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.
citizens fragile history nations shows survived time
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
design god nature prosperous
God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.
bodies endless fiscal holes money pour
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
billions dental developed final health insurance kids leave marginal millions people procedures spend worst
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.