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.

S. As candidate and then governor Lamm promised for environmental reasons to "drive a silver stake" through plans to build Interstate 470 a proposed circumferential highway around the southwest part of the Denver Metropolitan Area. Lamm was elected Colorado governor three times.

He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996. He is currently the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver.