"If there are flaws they are in ourselves,……" — 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 of the standards in which all of us believe."
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20 Quotes by Elliot Richardson
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But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and…
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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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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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