Quotes of 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 is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ”

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Designate

“ People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ”

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Disbelief

“ It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ”

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Entertainer

“ 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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Equipment

“ 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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Enormous

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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Futility

“ The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. ”

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Gamble

“ 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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Inclined

“ Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. ”

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Incompetent

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Incomprehensible

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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Increasingly

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Inaccessible

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

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Justness

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

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Legislature

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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Legislative

“ It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ”

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Musician

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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Procedure

“ Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. ”

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Powerless

“ People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ”

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Pessimism

“ 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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Restoration

“ 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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Rebirth

“ The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ”

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Rectify

“ The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ”

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Revise

“ If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ”

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Substantial

“ They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ”

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Spectator

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Suspicion

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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Shell

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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System

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

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Unfortunate

“ At stake, in the final analysis, is the very integrity of the governmental processes I came to the Department of Justice to help restore. ”

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Uprightness

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“ For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ”

“ People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ”

“ It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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

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

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. ”

“ People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ”

“ The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ”

“ If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ”

“ They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. ”

“ People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

“ There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ”

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

“ At stake, in the final analysis, is the very integrity of the governmental processes I came to the Department of Justice to help restore. ”