Allen Weinstein Quotes

"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built."
- Allen Weinstein
(Related: Research)

"NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings."
- Allen Weinstein
(Related: Public, Security)

"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
(Related: People, American, Obligation, Result)

"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."
- Allen Weinstein
(Related: Being, Will)

"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
(Related: History, Government, Actions, Rights, Nation)

"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
(Related: People, American, Party, President, states, United)

"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
(Related: Policy, Goals, Americans, Disagreements, Now)

"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
(Related: Americans, Awareness, Desire, Importance, Meaning)

"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
(Related: Devotion, Independence, Laws, Office, Principles)

"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
(Related: Education, Attention, Dependence, Security, World)