Quote by Elliot Richardson
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but

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

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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. – Elliot Richardson

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Learning
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This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. – Elliot Richardson

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Anniversary
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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. Thats an attitude Ive carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. – Elliot Richardson

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Attitude
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Failure
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. – Paddy Ashdown

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Failure

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

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Failure

With failure, you just try again. – Judd Nelson

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Failure

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. – Frederick Smith

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Failure

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