I would rather be respected than elected.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.