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• But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways…
• For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us…
• I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out…
• I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
• If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot…
• If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and…
• It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there…
• Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only…
• My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
• People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
• The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when…
• The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my…

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