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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

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.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.