"My most important task must be an attempt……" — Elliot Richardson
"My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control."
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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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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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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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