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.
From Richard Lamm
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
American public policy is run on a myth.
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.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
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