Doug Forrester Quotes (11 Quotes)

I don't have Bob Torricelli's experience. I haven't had my office raided by the F.B.I. I don't have the Senate ethics committee plowing through a file from the U.S. attorney's office.

There are school budgets that are being voted down around New Jersey even though they're efficient budgets, they're good budgets, because people can't see straight regarding property taxes. It has become such a burden that the way education funding has played its way out in the state as a result of the various Abbott decisions that we've got a real crisis on our hands.

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.

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.

There is a great deal of cynicism in New Jersey. Now more than ever, the electorate needs to be reassured there is consistency between the campaign and governance.

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.

We have seen a recklessness in the management of state government and finance that has been unprecedented.

It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job.

Well, senator, all this ad is is a quote from the front page of the New York Times where your wife thought it was important to come and identify certain things about public policy and principle.

This is a complete vindication for me and proof that the charges against my companies were a politically motivated campaign stunt.