Allen Weinstein 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

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• 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

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

  Allen Weinstein

  Staff, Protect, Patron

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Education, Attention, Records

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• 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

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• 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

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