#si

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

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#believe #i #i believe #margin #mr

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#arrangements #common #concern #delegate #entity

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#being #big #cannot #effect #feels

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. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#especially #flaws #must #our #ourselves

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #earth #hero #profession

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

#core #departments #experience #get #government

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#big #down #film #more #musical

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fault #faultless #find #much #others