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"NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."
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"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
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"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."
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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
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"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."
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"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
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"This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents."
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"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."
Being

"For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people."
People

"Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office."
Devotion

"Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood."
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"We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education."
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"Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory."
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"The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party."
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"NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings."
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"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built."
Research
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