Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

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.

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.

Our trials are our greatest teachers, mentors and benefactors.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.