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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Become Bureaucratic Cruel Failure Futility Game Inaccessible Incomprehensible Increasingly Inefficient Legislative Maze Only Pervasive Process Sense Service Shell System

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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Believe Flaws Must Our Ourselves Redesign Renewal Standards Task Therefore Us Which

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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Again Defining Developing Doing Done Else How Job Machinery Measure One Thing Something Something Else Tending Thing Trying Ways Well Were Why

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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Among Arrangements Common Concern Delegate Entity Label Only Own People Purposes Required Responsibility Serve Some State Things Us Which Word You

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

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Come Had League Mistake Nations Regard Rejection Senate Tragic

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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Administration Confidence Created Crisis Hope Magnanimous More Opening Out People Reaching Respond Spirit Up Watergate Will You Your

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

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Administration Concern Course First Individual Justice Must Said Second Truth

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I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Attitude Came Carried Case Casualties Day Each Each Day Given Going Heavy Job Just Learned Life Mission Professional Professional Life Take Thought Were

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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Abstain Advantage Being Big Cannot Effect Feels Full Large Loses Power Situation Strategic Using Voluntarily

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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.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Ball Become Could Had Heroes Large Like Men Nation Often Only Players Rock Seemed Singers Task Were Where Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: July 20th, 1920

Died: December 31st, 1999

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