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Elliot Richardson

"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."

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"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."

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"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."

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"I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy."

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"The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice."

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"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."

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"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."

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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

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"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."

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Elliot Richardson
"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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Elliot Richardson
"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?"

Legal

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

Flaws

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

Failure

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Elliot Richardson
"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."

Government

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

Job

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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."

People

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

Work

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

Life

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Elliot Richardson
"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."

President

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