Richard Ben-Veniste Quotes

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1943

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SpecialTrialsPresidentTopOffice

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

I AmMeBusyDoingYouKnow

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Joel Kinnaman

YourselfYouChoiceHardDefine

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

Megan Gallagher

FailBigShowsReallyGenerally

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Amitabh Bachchan

LearningFutureI AmHappyMeLearn

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

Steve Ells

StarsParentsStartRestaurantGoal

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

Stephanie March

SocietyProudCareTake CareTake

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Steven Spielberg

TodayProcessYearsDifferentReally

As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.

Tony Cardenas

BusinessPastSmallSomeoneLoan

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

Michael Pena

GoodPeopleBadBiggerCopsLike

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

Miranda Otto

WorkThinkThinkingBackWhyOut

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

Lorenzo Snow

LifeDayOpportunitiesLoseWill

Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Donna Brazile

MeProudFriendsChairYouDown

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