If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
It's my job as governor to set a vision.
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