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19 quotes by Elliot Richardson

Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 – December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1970 to 1973, Secretary of...
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People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was... →

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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... →

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The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

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The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would... →

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I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

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I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

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