Jon Corzine
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzineis an American financial executive and former politician. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and was the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. He also worked as CEO of Goldman Sachs during the 1990s and was CEO of MF Global from 2010 to 2011. He was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commissionin connection with MF's bankruptcy in 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 January 1947
CountryUnited States of America
It is simply inexcusable that we have a state government that again and again ranks low in public trust and esteem. In the face of all our state can be, our self-government too often falls short of what it should be.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state.
I believe that this is in the best long-term interest of the firm, ... As we transition management at the top, I will now concentrate my energies on successfully completing our initial public offering.
Let's award public contracts by competition and quality, not contributions.
I stand ready, personally, to help him in any way that he sees fit, to carry out what I believe is an important public task of healing New Jersey, bringing New Jersey together, of giving New Jersey that brighter future we spoke of in this campaign.
I don't like breaking deals. But an MOU is not a contract. We need to make sure the interests of the public are served as well as what I think is a worthy objective of having the Giants and Jets here.
The goal of what I have done with my charitable contributions is the same as it is in my public life: to try and make the world a little bit better,
I think we have a great opportunity tonight to give viewers a break on the negative tone that has surrounded the last few weeks of the campaign,
I think there are real problems inside the Patriot Act.
I sat down with my kids and talked about it.
Over the past few weeks, we have all seen what happens when we fail to take the necessary steps before disaster strikes.
Kids have places to play. This is a city that's on the move. It has a chance to have a real vital future, and I think it's degrading when you talk about people playing on roofs,
(Local governments) still have to pay for those services. Gas prices still go up, teachers' salaries still go up, pensions still go up, ... You can have the growth in the underlying value of property taxes exploding even though there is this so-called 30 percent reduction.