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Richard Lamm Quotes

American - Politician | September 12, 1935 -

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.

Time Government Want Christmas Pay

The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

Women Heart Great People Care Stop

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

Love People Train Country Labor Own

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.

Money Me Plant Impact Group Office

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.

Love Children Pain People Start Why

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

Money Aging Black You Endless Holes

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.

Building Enough Now Development Way

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Run President United Going Just

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.

Life Science Quality Day Medical

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

Politics Wise Enough You Know Leave

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.

Time Government Want Christmas Pay

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Law World Rest Immigration Mean Big

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