Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

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.

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 would rather be respected than elected.

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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

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

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.

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.

Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason.

In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.