RICHARD LAMM

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.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

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.

American public policy is run on a myth.

'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.

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

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.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

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

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.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate.

The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.

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.

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

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.

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.