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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.


James McGreevey

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JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER