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A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

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Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.

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I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and advance it.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: September 12th, 1935

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