Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. Richard Lamm More Quotes by Richard Lamm More Quotes From Richard Lamm The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture. Richard Lamm politicalpresidentneeds The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. Richard Lamm democraticreformparty Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that. Richard Lamm love-hatehateknows 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 babychildrenthinking America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford. Richard Lamm askswantamerica A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor. Richard Lamm obligationpoorfirsts 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. Richard Lamm doctorspeoplethinking I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse. Richard Lamm facesbelievefacts Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. Richard Lamm cheap-laborcountrypeople American public policy is run on a myth. Richard Lamm mythpolicyrunning 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 Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. Richard Lamm medicaltechnologyhealthcaring 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. Richard Lamm healthprocesspeopleworld 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 goodmedicaltechnologyhealth 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. Richard Lamm willpetroleumexhaustionworld Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose. Richard Lamm choosesomethingdoingeverything It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition. Richard Lamm knowagriculturenutritionlife The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children. Richard Lamm becomenewmindchildren 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 painlovechildrenpeople I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. Richard Lamm technologyagebelieveworld
