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Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is the 55th Governor of New Jersey and a leading member of the Republican Party.

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New Jersey's people who raise their voices and yell and scream like you that are dividing this country, we're here to bring this country together, not to divide it.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

When I worked for Jim, if I had said to him 11 days before an election that I was going to release information that could potentially affect the election, and one of the things that influenced me was polling, he would have fired me. He would have fired me on the spot.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

Ialso think it’s a long-term problem for our party if we continue this. Not only for our party but for the country.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Entertainment

We've been so open and so welcoming to him.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I didn’t, … I didn’t get any sun today.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I know Steve. Steve is a very bright guy, i got to work with him during the campaign. I think he was a big help to the President during the campaign and everything I saw he was involved in, but staff are there to serve the principle.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Using the government to mandate her point of view on what people should be eating everyday is none of her business.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

If you are not part of the Northeast elite, she has nothing to do with you.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

For gosh sakes, no apologies.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I've made it very clear to everybody on my senior staff that if anyone had any knowledge about this that they needed to come forward to me and tell me about it, and they've all assured me that they don't.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 2 years ago US News

I didn't see Mr. Khan's speech at the DNC, but I'll just say this: I'm a father and I just cannot imagine the pain of losing a child under any circumstances.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

We can not promote someone to commander-in-chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary Clinton has made, the facts of Hillary Clinton life and career disqualify Hillary Clinton.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

It’s called burrowing, you take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

The way I think about these things, you never say 'never,'.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Make America great again is going to be much better than making America whole again.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Sen. Rubio is on the air of desperate.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The best person to beat Hillary Clinton in November on that stage last night is undoubtedly Donald Trump.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

The best person to beat Hillary Clinton in November on that stage last night is undoubtedly Donald Trump, since I started this whole thing I've been practically Number 1.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

I heard Paul's remarks, and frankly he's apologized for them, we can't judge people by one set of remarks they make.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

There it is, the memorized 25-second speech.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

From a political perspective, his supporters might go to someone who is also a moderate like John Kasich.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

I like Marco Rubio. He's a nice guy. He may have a great future. His future is just not now, our country is too messed up to put somebody in there who is a first-term United States senator after coming off seven years of a first-term United States senator, who's never managed anything. Neither has Sen. Rubio.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Our country is too messed up to put somebody in there who is a first-term United States senator after coming off seven years of a first-term United States senator, who's never managed anything. Neither has Sen. Rubio.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

When the lights get that bright, you either shine or you melt, we can't afford to have a president who melts.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Jeb Bush simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States and make these decisions, we’ve watched it happen, everybody, for the last seven years. The people of New Hampshire are smart, do not make the same mistake again.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

The question is did he fight for his legislation. It’s abundantly clear that he did n’t.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

You bet I would.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Healthcare

This President and his former secretary of state are for paying ransom for hostages, when you do that, you endanger even more Americans around the world to be the subject of this type of hostage taking and illegal detention.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

All of the sudden, we see polls that see Sen. Cruz and Sen. Rubio up. Two guys who have spent the least amount of time in New Hampshire, by far. And because they came in second or third in Iowa, you are going to let them come in second or third in New Hampshire? if you reward these folks who don't show up here, there is no reason for New Hampshire to be first.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Let's get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble ... I'm ready to play. I hope he is because I'll be ready to see him on Saturday night.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

They gave Senator Santorum three minutes to name one accomplishment of Senator Rubio. One. Just one. It took him three minutes, he finally came up with: he fought some amendment on Obamacare, at one point.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We have a bunch of talkers in this race... In fact, so far, the talkers seem to be doing ok, the kings of talking are any member of the United States Senate. Because that's all they do.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

You have a choice now, the choice now that they have set up in this race is about talkers and doers.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

On the issue of pro-life, Marco Rubio is not for an exception for rape, incest or life of the mother. I think that's the kind of position that New Hampshire voters would be really concerned about.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Let's get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble and let's see him play for the next week in New Hampshire. I'm ready to play. I hope he is because I'll be ready to see him on stage on Saturday night, it's time for him to man up and step up and stop letting all of his handlers write his speeches and handle him, because that's what they do, that's what you have to do for somebody has never done anything in their life.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We are going to make the type of investment.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

Greater state involvement makes sense.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

It's time for him to man up and step up and stop letting all of his handlers write his speeches and handle him, because that's what they do, that's what you have to do for somebody has never done anything in their life.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Let's get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble and let's see him play for the next week in New Hampshire. I'm ready to play. I hope he is because I'll be ready to see him on stage on Saturday night.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Maybe he'll answer more than two or three questions in a town hall meeting, and do more than 40 minutes on a little stage you know telling everybody his canned speech that he's memorized. This isn't an a student council election.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

There comes a moment when a leader has to listen.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Anytime you get a podium and a microphone and 15-20 million people watching in an election campaign, you should take it.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

He's going to a gunfight with a sword, he doesn't even have a sword. He has a jackknife.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This is all going to come down to who's working the hardest at the end and who's going to make a connection, everybody from Trump on down should not feel the least bit comfortable about where they are or distraught about where they are. We've got two debates between now and then. There's a lot to do, so I feel good.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It's the point I've been trying to make to everybody, and I think the storm helps make it really clearly to folks, it matters what you've done before, it matters.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

That shows a real immaturity from Marco Rubio to be joking as families were freezing in the cold, losing power and some of them losing their loved ones.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Our folks listened to our warnings. They stayed in. We were prepared.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

A president's rhetoric is not going to make it so that somebody is going to lose their apartment because they go off support to go and take a minimum wage job, that person's not going to make that decision no matter how much the president tells them there's value in working, we need to be practical about it.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We as Republicans have to go back to campaigning in places where we're uncomfortable, we should stop going to Chamber of Commerce luncheons.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

My grandfather was gone, and my grandmother had to take three buses every day to go to work and my mother had to raise her two younger siblings, and they were abjectly poor.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If you leave (education) to the federal government, they swing a meat ax instead of a scalpel on these issues.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We should stop going to Chamber of Commerce luncheons.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Our party has failed in going into those places because we've said, 'Well we don't get instant gratification back,'.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

He had a free ride during some of the greatest economic times this country has ever seen.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

He had a free ride during some of the greatest economic times this country has ever seen, so the fact that he's taking bows for doing well under those circumstance, he can take his bows, it's his record but he wouldn't know the first thing to do if he was in New Jersey for a week and dealt with a Democratic legislature, hostile interest groups, huge unions.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The reason they're coming after me now is because I'm doing well and my message is connecting, it's good to be attacked.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I just wonder what happened to the Marco who so indignantly looked at Jeb Bush and said, 'I guess someone must have convinced you that going negative against me helps you,' i guess that same person must now have convinced Marco that going negative against Chris Christie is what he needs to do.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I've always said we need to do well here, now whether well is first second, third fourth it will depend on a lot of other factors.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If I can do for America what I've done for New Jersey, we'll be in pretty good shape.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We need an experienced, tested decision-maker in the Oval Office.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I don't care whether your name is Barack Obama, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, you have never run a thing of consequence in your life.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It's something I've cared about for the last 19 years of my life, i think I'm just more experienced on it than the rest of them. I think I spoke about it much sooner than the rest of them did, but in the end, voters get to make that decision.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You will take this race from 12 candidates down to four on February 10, you will do that.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Watch it, Father, i obviously made an awful choice calling on the Father. You put me on the spot.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Negotiating, being smart about this, but also knowing that in the end the job of government is to enforce the law and make sure following the law is most important principle to follow.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It's a very difficult circumstance for the citizens there and for the folks who are participating in that action and you know the governor is going to have some very difficult choices to make.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Dude, show up to work.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

You are the most powerful voters in the world.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Senator Rubio said he was opposed to it, yet he did not show up to speak on the floor, he didn't show up to cast his vote. When you're governor of New Jersey and you don't like spending, you use the line item veto, and you make the argument to people. You show up and you get the job done.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Nobody in America cares about that.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I am convinced that was a terrorist attack, we need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the midst of the next world war.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I had a lot to come back from. I mean, you know, the fact is that I didn't have the greatest year in the year before, and so you, so you needed to reintroduce yourself to people. And that's a process. But I always had confidence that if I spent the time up here and more people got to see me, the more they got to know me, they'd remember why they liked me. And I think that's what we see happening.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'm happy to be noticed and happy to be noticed by Donald, it's a good day for me so I'm not worried about that at all.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I didn't get briefed in some basement in Capitol Hill and have to give a vote on subcommittee which I could vote differently in the full committee and then differently on the floor, this isn't about just blowing hot air.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

New is great. Right? Whenever we see something new, we think it's great. It's exciting, it's shiny, it's untarnished, it looks fabulous and gives us a little bit of thrill, new is great ... until you need experience. Then you'll wish that coin was a little more tarnished. You'll wish it was beat up a little bit and gone through some things.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'm the only person on stage that's used the PATRIOT Act, I'm the only person on that stage that's used the FISA court, I'm the only person on that stage who has actually fought terrorism, knows how to use those tools, and knows how to bring to terrorism to heel.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I don't think anyone can look objectively at where we sit as a country now and say that we're better off than we were seven years ago on the issue of race in Middle America with Barack Obama as president.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I would be fascinated to see The President go to Paris and speak to the families who lost their loved ones... days ago and tell them that ISIS is just a group of killers who are good at social media.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

When she got off that ferry, she was walking down the street and she was wrapped in a blanket and soaking wet -- anybody who had been in lower Manhattan, they were hosed off by firehoses. They were covered with dust, that's' the first sight of my wife after having left her that morning. I just grabbed her, hugged her, got her in the car and got her home.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The President's the person who created this entire situation.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

He needs to get some sleep and shut up.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I do not remember that, and so it's not something that was part of my recollection. I think if it had happened, I would remember it, but, you know, there could be things I forget, too.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'd sit down with our allies and figure out how we can help, because America is a compassionate country, we saw the image of that 4-year-old little boy drowned in Syria, and we can't have those kinds of things. I can't come up with an exact number. You'd have to sit with our allies and work together.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

The fact is that I know now that that's just not going to work and that we're not gonna reward people who have come here illegally with citizenship, i have a real, holistic plan on how to deal with immigration going forward as president of the United States.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I don't think anyone can look objectively at where we sit as a country now and say that we're better off than we were seven years ago on the issue of race in America with Barack Obama as president.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

What I'd say to the 330 million people of America is grab onto your wallet because Hillary Clinton's next move is to have universal health care, single-payer system with the government taking over the whole health care system, that's what she and her socialist friend Bernie Sanders are going to advocate for ... and I'm going to stop it.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

She has made it very clear, she believes that she can make decisions for you better than you can make them for yourself, believe me, Hillary Clinton's coming for your wallet, everybody.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I've said since the beginning that it doesn't matter what debate stage I'm on, give me a podium and I'll be there, anytime, anywhere.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

What we have to do in this country is to start to acknowledge that and say, yes, it was a bad choice to use drugs, but haven't all of us made bad choices in our life? And we were just fortunate that it didn't involve an addiction to drugs or alcohol.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I don't see it as a big blow at all, and I don't see it as a demotion. I see it as a transfer.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

By every measure that we define success in this country this guy had it, great looking guy, well educated, great career, plenty of money, beautiful loving wife, beautiful children, great house, he had everything. He's a drug addict and he couldn't get help and he's dead, there but for the grace of God go I. It can happen to anyone so we need to start treating people in this country, not jailing them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

You got to be pro-life for the whole life, not just for the 9 months they're in the womb.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Do not count me in this group that is doing this moaning and complaining about this.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

(Obama) does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn't. And he's going to come today to New Jersey in a place where, under my tenure, we have reduced crime 20 percent and reduced the prison population 10 percent, it's a disgrace that he's coming to New Jersey today to take credit for this stuff when he's been someone who's undercut it.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The third debate wasn't awful. A lot of the questions were bad, but you know what you learned a lot about those candidates on that stage too -- how you can handle going back and forth, the presidency is almost never scripted, so we shouldn't have those debates scripted either.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

That doesn't mean that I want us, the candidates, controlling the debate, the format and having everybody negotiate. We'll never agree.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Here's the thing: I now know I am definitely going to be the next president, they are worried I will beat their candidate, Hillary Clinton.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football? wait a second: we have $19 trillion in debt, we have people out of work, we have ISIS and al-Qaeda attacking us. And we're talking about fantasy football? Can we stop?

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The unique approach Ford brings will help build on my administration's approach to responsible management of the state's finances and prudent oversight of taxpayer funds, i look forward to his insights on fiscal and tax policy solutions that will continue growing our economy and bringing much-needed relief to the burden shouldered by New Jersey taxpayers.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I look forward to his insights on fiscal and tax policy solutions that will continue growing our economy and bringing much-needed relief to the burden shouldered by New Jersey taxpayers.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

There's now 300,000 nearly dead in Syria because of Assad and now Putin is going in and teaming with the Iranians to prop up Assad, only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Now that he's there, America's got to re-establish its presence in that area.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

But you watch, he'll get bogged down there. He'll be there. He'll spend a fortune. He'll be begging to get out. Everybody that's gone to the Middle East has had nothing but problems.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Only Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could mess up this foreign policy that badly.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The fact is that his infallibility is on religious matters, not on political ones.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I’m as entertained as anyone.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

These guys are just throwing school-yard insults, we don't care if they don't like each other. We don't care if they respect each other. We should be talking about the problems of the American people. That's not what they are doing.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I think what these two gentlemen have forgotten is this isn't about them. It's about the American people.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Yet we let people come into this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The worst thing about this is the arrogance of Mrs. Clinton -- that's the worst part of this. Here's a woman who won't answer questions, she's running for president of the United States. You think you'd see her in a room like this taking any question that comes up? No chance. She doesn't do that.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The real story is this -- I believe in my heart -- that Hillary Clinton doesn't want us to know what she's doing. She believes we don't have a right to know. When I'm president of the United States, you have a right to know what your president is doing, and we have the obligation to be held accountable for what we're doing.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If she mishandled classified information and obstructed justice, then she deserves to be prosecuted. She sure as hell doesn't deserve to be president of the United States.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I had a private email account, but I didn't do my business on a private email account. She did everything on that account and then when she knows people are concerned about it, she gets the server cleaned.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We have 12 missing text messages that were sent to me by someone when we weren't under investigation and didn't even know what was going on. Mrs. Clinton deleted emails when she was under subpoena. In my neck of the woods, we call that obstruction of justice.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You go online and at any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is, yet we let people come into this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in and then when your time is up, however long your visa is, then we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, 'Excuse me, it's time to go.'.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The entire conversation about 'anchor babies' is a distraction that makes us sound like we're anti-immigrant, and we're not, our party is not that way. We want people to do it legally. Do it the right way.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

To those who have not yet announced their position, particularly my friend Sen. Cory Booker, this cannot be about politics and this cannot be accepting the flawed idea that a bad deal is better than no deal.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

What you need to do in the Oval Office is rein this government in. Stop running up so much debt.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I believe that farmers should be able to make decisions about how best to raise their livestock, not government bureaucrats. I vetoed that bill twice in New Jersey, and if it comes to my desk again, I'll veto it again, and I thank them for the opportunity.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

When you actually have to be responsible for doing this …. we did it for seven years in my office, respecting civil liberties and protecting the homeland and I will make no apologies ever for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people, we have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Once you get on the stage it's not going matter whether you're number one or five or 10, you get the opportunity to make your pitch to the Republican primary voters across America.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This is like building a 2,000-mile wall across the border that Mexico's going to pay for, it sounds really good you, pound your chest, but the question is how? How are you going to do it?

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Donald is going to be as serious as Donald wants to be. And he's going to determine through the depth of his answers and the seriousness of his answers whether he is a serious candidate or he isn't.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Anybody can do well for a month in this business, especially if you have talent and personality, and Donald has both those things. Let's see how this goes over the course of time.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This is the kind of garbage that people point at who have an agenda, work for the candidate who you want to work for, that's fine with me.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

That ad was from 1995. Let me ask you this, if you haven't changed your mind once in 20 years, if you haven't changed your mind in 20 years on any issue, then I'll tell you, you're not a thinking, breathing, living human being.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Work for the candidate who you want to work for, that's fine with me.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I heard a candidate complain the other day that, you know, 'my positions' -- meaning that candidate's positions -- 'on comments I made about entitlement reform are being misconstrued by the press.' Well, it's much harder to be misconstrued by the press if you're specific, if you continue to speak in generalities, then you're going to have other people interpret what you mean.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

People don't have to interpret what I mean about Social Security, it won't be mischaracterized ... the more vague you are because you're trying to have it both ways, the more you're subject to that kind of misinterpretation.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I think that if you give it 25 years, which is what we're giving it, you're going to see advances in medical science ... and pharmaceutical treatments that are going to allow us to even have manual laborers who will be able to work longer, much longer than they're able to work now, even to 65?

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Amtrak's indifference to New Jersey commuters and its abject neglect of the infrastructure that New Jersey and our entire region relies upon.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

He made a business decision. That's all. That's the only way I view it, he thinks Jeb Bush is be a better candidate for president, that's OK. Doesn't mean he doesn't like me and doesn't mean we're not still friends.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We've got to penalize employers who hire people who are here illegally, because the fact is that that shouldn't happen and it's exploiting American workers. But in addition to that, it's exploiting many of those people who are here illegally because they're being paid less money. So we need to make bigger fines to make sure that those employers who violate the law are being held accountable.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We're going to look back on this and he should be in hearings in front of Congress if the country is attacked.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You all are going to be the ones who are going to decide who are the people who are really serious contenders for the White House, and you're then going to send that group of us off to the rest of the country, i'm going to work hard to get your support.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

All of them are suffering at home in the polls because people are saying, 'Oh you're not here as much,' folks have to get used to this new role that I'm playing and when they do, and they see that things still operate well in the state, they'll be fine.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I'm not happy that it was six days before the presidential election, but I'm much less happy, much less happy that that storm hit my state and I saw the destruction it had done to my people, i will never apologize for what I did in the aftermath of Sandy, but the people of my state understand.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

You're going to shake your head sometimes and say, 'I cannot believe he just said that.' But here's one thing you'll never be able to say: 'I don't know what he thinks. I don't know what he feels,'.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Most times when people leave these things, I've changed minds and it's just a matter of me working hard enough to make sure I change enough minds.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Its part of my record now whether I like it or not so I'd rather answer.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It's an absolute controlled anger. A controlled anger.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

John McCain was far more irascible and tactless in his campaign style than Christie has been and he was not known as a bully, maybe it's just because of Chris Christie's size -- he looks like a guy who could just squash you!

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'm going to tell you what I think and if you like it, great. If you don't, my goodness you have 13 other candidates to pick from.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You can absolutely lay your opponent out without saying a bad word.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I think it's a hallmark of his leadership, i think so many times our politicians, they don't tell the truth. I think America is looking for someone to tell the truth.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Well, listen, you know, we've got to put together a coalition of the willing, which has been used before ... and used successfully in that region.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It depends upon the circumstances. That is what eminent domain is all about, that's why we have the ability for people to go to court and work through that, i can't give a generalized answer on that. A generalized answer is just sophomoric and I won't give one.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If you want to renegotiate your mortgage, you can. If you want to renegotiate your car, you can. But for some reason you don't get to renegotiate your loan. They should let them do that.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Let's let them pay for what they want to pay for.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The fact is that people know I know how to bring folks together and how to fight when I need to, and I think sometimes with folks who are in red states, they don't have as much experience with that.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm no wallflower, i'll let folks know what I'm going to be.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

One of the things that makes me different is I think I'm combat-ready for Washington.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The President only has the resolve to stand up to our friends and not to stand up to evil, as long as Iran believes that Israel doesn't have the right to exist and that America should die as well, they are not a part of the civilized world.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't think that's deniable. And I do think human activity contributes to it.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

He's a criminal and he's hiding in Russia and he's lecturing to us about the evils of authoritarian government while he's living under the umbrella of Vladamir Putin.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Think of Reagan, he was a kind man and a person that didn't do victory dances on his adversaries; he embraced them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

For substance abuse treatment, repealing Obamacare is a very, very big deal, we have plenty of people coming to treatment and we have waiting lists.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We have taken for granted, everybody, nearly 14 years of not attack in this country on a major scale. And we should not take that for granted, the thing that's demoralizing to me is that there are I think so many sectors in our country who haven't forgotten 9/11. Everyone will remember 9/11, but have forgotten what 9/11 felt like.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We acted differently, we conducted our lives differently. We were reticent. We were scared to do things as a people. That's a stealing of our liberty too.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There are going to be some who are going come before you and going to say oh no, no this is not what the founders intended. the founders made sure that the first obligation of the American government was to protect the lives of the American people.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think I've learned over time about this issue and done a lot more work on it, back in 2010, I was in my first couple months as governor. I've now learned some of the ramifications for all these things.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Let me be clear : All these fears are baloney. When it comes to fighting terrorism, our government is not the enemy.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

These things are all temporary snapshots of time and nothing that concerns me much at all, i've been up in polls, down in polls.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no (weapons of mass destruction), that the country should have gone to war.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If the money was paid to the Jets just for saluting the troops, they should give the money back, because we should be saluting the troops because of what they do for our country.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I know how important a tool the PATRIOT Act is to help to prevent terrorism to intercede before a terrorist act occurs. I'm not someone who's going to back away at all from the Patriot Act.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If the elites in Washington who make backroom deals decide who the president's going to be, then he's definitely the frontrunner.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There is no political advantage to talking about those issues, the reason you talk about them is because you want to really make suggestions that will help solve the problems that our country confronts.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

None of it matters 'til the game starts, none of it matters 'til you see how people perform under these lights.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think a governor is going to be the nominee — a governor or a former governor -- because I believe our party and country needs someone who's actually run something, and while I have great respect for a number of those folks, I don't believe that we've done well with the experiment of a one-term U.S. senator being president of the United States.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'd like to see what Jeb Bush is going to have to say about these things, you know. He's certainly got a father and a brother who've got a record, and I don't know what Jeb Bush is going to say about foreign policy, the one speech he's given so far I thought was rather general and didn't give you a great insight into what he'd do. Let's see what he's got to say for himself.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You would have thought when he announced in December that he would be, but it seems to me that that train has slowed down pretty significantly from what I've seen out and around the country.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When you get this microphone in your hands, you will feel an indescribable, yet undeniable, gravitational-like pull to give a speech.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are all from New Jersey : You know what New Jersey means, if you give New Jersey, you are getting New Jersey right back.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I say to people, listen, if you're not a millionaire, but you want to feel like one.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It bankrupted Detroit, it bankrupted General Motors, and it will bankrupt us.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

What I would be concerned about are the people who are in Detroit right now.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

You're going to see article after article purporting that Republicans can't afford a long nomination battle. That we need to unite behind whichever candidate who has the most money or the most endorsements or the best press coverage. But remember, George H.W. Bush fought Ronald Reagan for the nomination until May of 1980, we are 20 months from electing our next president. So, calm down. Don't be afraid.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

That's what the law requires. So let's make sure we comply with the law. That should be the minimum.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm not worried about what the polls say 21 months out, i will run a hard campaign. ... I like my chances.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There will be times where I will say things that will make you shake your head, but what you'll never say is that I don't know who he is and I don't know what he believes, and I don't what he's willing to fight for and who he's willing to fight to get there.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If we hold our candidates for public office to that standard, let me tell you what you're going to get: liars, we need to demand the truth.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There's only one Chris Christie, everybody, and this is it.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The more I come back, the less speech you're going to get and the more time you're going to get to ask me questions and challenge me, because that's when I'm most comfortable.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If we did it in New Jersey, everybody, for God's sake we can do it in the United States of America.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I believe in testing.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

All I can say is we vaccinated ours.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If you want someone you agree with 100 percent of the time, go home and look in the mirror.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

If I do run, I'll be myself and we'll see how Iowans like that.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

A plumbing repair ignited a fire in the wall which then spread through the building, it was accidental, there was nothing suspicious about it, and we have complete verification and there's no doubt about it. It was just a tragic accident.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

We'll be here to help, i'm sorry for your loss.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

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