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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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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."
"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
"The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack."
"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."
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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."
"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
"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."
"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
"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."
"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
"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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