If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so,… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day,… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the… — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
