We need to send a signal to business that we cannot continue to hit them up. At least for four years, we're going to draw a line in the sand and say: 'No new taxes.' To do otherwise would continue to erode the kind of tax base that will allow us to pay for anything.

People don't have confidence in their senior elected officials. These are the ones we entrust with the public's business, (with) votes and actions that will be done for the sole benefit of the citizens of New Jersey. It's time for a change. This is not a change.

It's a plan that has a lot of substance to it with respect to the establishment of a partnership between the state and local government. That skin-in-the-game connection I think is a very good business principle. It should have been done a very long time ago.

It's always nice to be vindicated. We've known for a year now we've done everything right.

We're engaged in a struggle here in 2005 in New Jersey.

It's ironic that we started out with a basic commitment to economic integration and then we get to a situation where we can pay off and never handle the larger social issue. The logic is to produce economically integrated towns all over New Jersey. We have to keep our eye on the ball here.