A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

American public policy is run on a myth.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

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...

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.