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.

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.