"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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"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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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy."

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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."

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"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure."

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"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

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"But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency."

Barney Frank, American Politician

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"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"

Gwen Ifill, American Journalist

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"Our current energy policy is bankrupt."

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"Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day."

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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."

Government

"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 society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."

Society

"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."

Creativity

"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."

Man

"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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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."

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"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."

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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 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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