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"Wow." - U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9), in response to U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman's assertion that Pascrell could have moved out of the district to challenge U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen.
- PolitickerNJ.com"I don’t think it’s going to be an extraordinarily long hearing because there’s just not a lot of experience to question him on.” state Sen. Nick Scutari (D-22), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Gov. Chris Christie's nomination of Bruce Harris of Chatham to the state Supreme Court.
- PolitickerNJ.com“This campaign is not about bringing the powerful down, it’s about raising the middle class up." - U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
- PolitickerNJ.com“It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright.” - Newark Mayor Cory Booker, on NBC's Meet the Press
- Politico"We need to continue the 23-year legacy going forward." - Newark City Council President Donald Payne, Jr.
- PolitickerNJ.com"Booker!" a seething Gov. Chris Christie in a well-received NJ Correspondents Club dinner sketch he did with Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
- PolitickerNJ.com"You don’t change your mind because of what’s in the paper. You change your mind because of what’s in your heart. You obviously haven’t.” - U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, addressing U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, in last night's NJTV-Bergen Record debate at Montclair University.
- PolitickerNJ.com"Christie perhaps does not understand what it is like to walk down a street with the person he loves and risk being beaten to death because he held that person's hand in public in the wrong place at the wrong time of day. Christie does not know what it is like to be denied access to his life partner in a hospital in an emergency solely because he doesn't have a copy of a medical proxy on him at all times. Christie can say: 'This is my wife.' And he does often." - columnist Al Doblin
- The Bergen Record"The advocates don’t want a vote and say it’s not fair to put civil rights up to a vote. If you think it’s going to pass take a shot I can’t be any more accommodating than that, unless I change my position or have it evolve.” - Gov. Chris Christie, responding to President Barack Obama's public reversal on the issue of marriage equality.
- PolitickerNJ.com“By publicly announcing his support for marriage equality, President Obama has done a great and tremendously important thing for the cause of justice. Supporters of this issue of civil rights could have no greater public supporter and no better person to draw people to the cause than the president." - Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3), West Deptford.
- PolitickerNJ.comMorning News Digest: May 24, 2012By Missy RebovichTry State Street Wire, Follow PolitickerNJ on Twitter and Facebook. Text "PNJ" to 89800 to receive alerts In News 12 debate in Teaneck, Pascrell hounds Rothman on decision not to face Garrett After diving into a five-month slugfest...
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"Wow." - U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9), in response to U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman's assertion that Pascrell could have moved out of the district to challenge U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen.
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