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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Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement.
Peace is a change of heart.
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.
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.
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.
The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
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.
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
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.