The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack. — 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
