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What we need to do is to inspire businessmen and businesswomen to open up small businesses and medium businesses, and have big businesses come and relocate to New Jersey.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.