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.

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

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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

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.

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

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.