Allen Weinstein famous quotes

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Reality #Goal #Records

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Staff #Protect #Patron

The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Party #People #Political

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Rights #Government #Citizens

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
-- Allen Weinstein

#People #Roles #Records

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Attention #Records #World

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Goal #Purpose #Bitter

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Responsibility #Law #Office

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
-- Allen Weinstein

#Desire #Heritage #Fierce

There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.