"But tending machinery was one thing; defining what……" — 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 how well the job was done - this was something else again."
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20 Quotes by Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson has 20 quotes on this site.
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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve.…
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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and…
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I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is…
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If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that…
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If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of…
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and…
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Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won,…
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My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
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The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value…
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The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back…
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The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the…
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More Defining Quotes
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
— Halle Berry
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001.…
— Luke Bryan
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our…
— Ken Burns
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to…
— Abdallah II
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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the…
— Tony Campolo
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
— Benjamin Carson
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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their…
— Devon Aoki
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your…
— Tyson Gay
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the…
— Jacques Monod
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The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading…
— Jim Cymbala
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives…
— Sissela Bok
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