82 Quotes by Richard Lamm

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.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

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.

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

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

American public policy is run on a myth.

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

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

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.