"The experience of learning how to get straight……" — 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 a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."
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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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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 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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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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