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" I would rather be respected than elected. "
Charles Edison
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" I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. "
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" Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. "
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" In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. "
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" 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. "
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