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.

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.

I would rather be respected than elected.

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.

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.

Neither harm nor hate.

Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.