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.

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• Richard Lamm:

  Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mea

• Richard Lamm:

  He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

• Richard Lamm:

  I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals,

• Richard Lamm:

  We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and e

• Richard Lamm:

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

• Richard Lamm:

  Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we p

• Richard Lamm:

  American public policy is run on a myth.

• Richard Lamm:

  I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for

• Richard Lamm:

  To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be

• Richard Lamm:

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