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.

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.

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

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

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.

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

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.