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.

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.

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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.