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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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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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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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? – Elliot Richardson

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legal
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Failure
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich

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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. – Jesse Jackson

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Our managers hadnt had that kind of success – the record company hadnt, we hadnt – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasnt it would be some kind of failure. – Roland Gift

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Failure

We are equally glad and surprised at Winstons return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. – Shane Leslie

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