James McGreevey Quotes - Page 2

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• I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

  James McGreevey

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• 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 hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Shoes

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• 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 complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• 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 quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

  James McGreevey

  School, Law, Ideas

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• But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

  James McGreevey

  Running, Public Opinion, Firsts

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Adults, Affair

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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