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.
Richard LammPolitics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Richard LammWe have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
Richard LammYou know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
Richard LammOur 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.
Richard Lamm