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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially impor

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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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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Failure
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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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legal
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. – Orson Pratt

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legal

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legal

I dont know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us dont want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and were not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. – Tony Campolo

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legal

Supercookies are legal, but I dont think they should be. – Joe Barton

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legal

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The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. – Bill Richardson

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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. – S. E. Hinton

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. – Francis Bacon

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