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.

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.

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.

Hangin' upside down ain't good for nobody but possums.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.