Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

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.

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.

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.

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