My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

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.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

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 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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.