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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Any loss is a gain.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.