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Richard Douglas "Dick" Lamm (born August 3, 1935) is an American politician, writer, Certified Public Accountant, college professor, and lawyer. He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996.

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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.

People, Quality, Things, Think, Thinking, Tubes

The U. S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Change, Needs, Political, President, Presidents

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

Cheap Labor, Country, Love, People

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

Afford, America, Ask, Asks, Want

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

Democratic, Party, Reform

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Economic, Engineering, Greatness, Nation, Sued, World

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Hate, Know, Knows, Love Hate, Politics, Relationship

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Action, Gain, Law, Laws, Might, Minorities

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.

Adults, Christmas, Funny, Tell, Time, Xmas

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Believe, Death, Face, Faces, Facts

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Firsts, Nation, Obligation, Poor

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.

Baby, Challenges, Children, Fiscal, Make, Thinking

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers. . . . tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance. . . but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation. . . these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

America, Included, Medicine, Numbers, Tort, Worlds

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.

Aliens, Big, Come, Groups, Impact, Office

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

American, Develop, Ideal, Ideals, Way

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.

Alive, Ask, Doctors, Health, People, Thinking

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.

Coral, Fall, Ice, Pressure, Rainforests, Water

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

600000, Millionaires, Months, Social, Thinking, Waste

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

America, Based, Campaign, Country, Needs, Real

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Enemies, Enemy, People, Permanent, Persuade

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