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American public policy is run on a myth.
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.
A nation can't get strong on political pablum.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.
God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
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.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
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.
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.
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.
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.
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.
I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.
We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
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.
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.
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.
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.
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
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.
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.
Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.
I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.