I would rather be respected than elected.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

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.

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.

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.