Occupation: Former Governor Of New Jersey Birth: August 6, 1957
I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable..
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quit….
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my p….
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embr….
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political l….
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good..
When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier….
My truth is that I am a gay American..
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection..
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man..
I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry..
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked….
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and co….
For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself..
I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift..
We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will ….
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the fa….
I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a compl….
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's ….
Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life..
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives..