Impact Quote by Elliot Richardson

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

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

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

— Elliot Richardson

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

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

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

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

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

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

— Elliot Richardson

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

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

I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

— Elliot Richardson