Richard Lamm quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Richard Lamm has a lot to say. In this list we present the 13 best Richard Lamm quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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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
To me, the failure of liberalism – the tradition I come from – was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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 sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
— 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 and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.
— Richard Lamm
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
— 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.
— 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.
— Richard Lamm
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
— Richard Lamm
God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.
— Richard Lamm
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
— 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 fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.
— 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 for a society to be bilingual.
— Richard Lamm
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