I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
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.
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.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
