I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

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.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

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.

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.