The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
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.
The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
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 mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.
It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.
People deserve to see a governor who is hustling every day.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.