If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
It’s about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.
If you want the things people don’t have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield.
The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It’s not a government handout. If anything, it’s a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won’t come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It’s costing every commuter.
We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.
There is too much disagreement for disagreement’s sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new ‘Declaration of Inter-dependence.’ A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.
One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.
The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.
Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That’s really what life is about.
As you put your sights on your goals – no matter how great and compelling they are – as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.
I still have that new senator smell.