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.

As U. Richardson is one of only two individuals to serve in four United States Cabinet positions within the United States government: Secretary of Health Education and Welfare from 1970 to 1973 Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973 Attorney General from May to October 1973 and Secretary of Commerce from 1976 to 1977.