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Top 25 Richard Lamm Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

1. “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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.”

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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.”

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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.”

5. “Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise enough to know when to leave.”

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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.”

7. “Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency.”

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

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.”

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

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don’t really mean our immigration law.”

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

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.”

11. “We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “A nation can’t get strong on political pablum.”

13. “A nation can’t get strong on political pablum.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.”

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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “American public policy is run on a myth.”

16. “American public policy is run on a myth.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “To me, the failure of liberalism – the tradition I come from – was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.”

17. “To me, the failure of liberalism – the tradition I come from – was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “I have no permanent enemies – only people I have yet to persuade.”

18. “I have no permanent enemies – only people I have yet to persuade.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Richard Lamm Quote: “America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.”

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

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Richard Lamm Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.”

25. “The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.”

— Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm Quote: “A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.”

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

— Richard Lamm

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