Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Ben-Veniste

Legal language loves the sheen of neutrality, so the little flare of "frankly" here is the tell. Richard Ben-Veniste is not merely reporting difficulty; he is performing a controlled breach of decorum, a lawyerly way of saying: someone stonewalled, someone slow-walked, someone played games. "It was not easy" is an understatement that lets him imply obstruction without alleging it outright. The sentence keeps its tie on while sliding a note under the door.

The phrasing also signals the world it comes from: investigations, depositions, commissions, hearings, the places where information is power and the record is a battleground. "To get all my questions answered" frames him as methodical, almost dutiful; the questions are his rightful tools, and answers are the owed currency. If he didn't receive them, it's not because he asked poorly, but because the system resisted disclosure. The passive construction ("to get") quietly shifts focus away from his own agency and toward the environment that made basic fact-finding arduous.

There's an additional layer of reputation-management. A lawyer who admits he couldn't get answers risks sounding ineffective. Ben-Veniste counters that by embedding an explanation: the obstacle wasn't his preparation, it was the difficulty of access. "All" is doing heavy lifting, too, suggesting partial cooperation that still amounts to failure where it matters: completeness. In a culture that equates transparency with legitimacy, this sentence is a soft indictment, calibrated to travel well in public without collapsing into accusation.