Top 17 Quotes by Charles Edison

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

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.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.