Quotes About Chris Christie

#1. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'

Jimmy Fallon

#2. In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

Chris Christie

#3. Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Chris Christie

#4. Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Chris Christie

#5. If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then he turned to his friends and said, 'You guys want anything?' That's a joke. I can't believe it. I caved in. I feel awful.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

Chris Christie

#7. People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century, to be a historical accident.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#8. The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.

Chris Christie

#9. You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart.

Chris Christie

#10. Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'

David Letterman

#11. The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Chris Christie

#12. In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.

Chris Christie

#13. Let me be clear: America and the world are measurably less safe and less respected because of the Iran deal Hillary [Clinton] helped cut.

Chris Christie

#14. Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

Chris Christie

#15. We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.

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#16. We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

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#17. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Tom Morello

#18. Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is 'shrinking the American pie.' And believe me, if there's one thing Christie hates, it's a small pie.

Jay Leno

#19. I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't ... But I am not a bully.

Chris Christie

#20. It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that.

Chris Christie

#21. I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

Chris Christie

#22. And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

Chris Christie

#23. The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.

Chris Hayes

#24. When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

#25. A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.

David Letterman

#26. I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college.

Chris Christie

#27. Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Chris Christie

#28. I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Chris Christie

#29. I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor; I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Chris Christie

#30. Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.

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#31. We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.

Chris Christie

#32. We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

Chris Christie

#33. If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chris Christie

#34. You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

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#35. Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That's the only difference between Chris Christie and I - he's a little shy.

Paul LePage

#36. Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

#37. In 2012 Roger Ailes, you know, desperately tried to get who into the race? Chris Christie, a somewhat moderate if tough talking from a purple state. They were very interested this David Petraeus, a figure who served in the Obama administration as CIA chief.

Donald Trump

#38. What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

Chris Christie

#39. I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

Chris Christie

#40. If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind ... by going first, we can become first.

Chris Christie

#41. There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do.

Chris Christie

#42. There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

David Letterman

#43. Scarborough Demolishes Chris Christie

Anonymous

#44. We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Chris Christie

#45. You have to do more than just talk about work. You have to really reward the people who are out there doing it.

Chris Christie

#46. A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, 'Hey, both of those games went into overtime.'

Conan O'Brien

#47. Get the hell off the Beach in Asbury Park and get out. You're done. It's 4:30 PM. You've maximized your tan. Get off the beach. Get in you cars and get out of those areas.

Chris Christie

#48. And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

Chris Christie

#49. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.

Jimmy Fallon

#50. Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

Chris Christie

#51. Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Chris Christie

#52. The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

Chris Christie

#53. They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

Chris Christie

#54. You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Chris Christie

#55. I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

Chris Christie

#56. There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chris Christie

#57. The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

Chris Christie

#58. We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

Chris Christie

#59. You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

Chris Christie

#60. Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

Chris Christie

#61. Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.

Herman Cain

#62. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

Chris Christie

#63. Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

#64. A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

#65. As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

Chris Christie

#66. I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

Chris Christie

#67. As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

Chris Christie

#68. I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Chris Christie

#69. Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Chris Christie

#70. We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie, and [Marco] Rubio. But they've all avoided him in one form or another.

Dalia Mogahed

#71. You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Chris Christie

#72. It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind, but when you're a governor you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done!

Chris Christie

#73. America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

Chris Christie

#74. Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Chris Christie

#75. Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

Denis Leary

#76. You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

Chris Christie

#77. The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

Chris Christie

#78. Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader".
There's now 400,000 now dead ... think about that.

Chris Christie

#79. When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

Chris Christie

#80. Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Amy Poehler

#81. Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

#82. The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

Chris Christie

#83. As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character.

Chris Christie

#84. Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chris Christie

#85. I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Chris Christie

#86. Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

Chris Christie

#87. In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'

Conan O'Brien

#88. I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act, working with our law enforcement, working with the surveillance community to make sure that we keep America safe.

Chris Christie

#89. When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

Chris Christie

#90. Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Kinky Friedman

#91. It's [Ted] Cruz and [Donald] Trump until the establishment or unless the establishment figures rally around one person. I still think the best person for them to rally around is Chris Christie. Chris Christie would be the most interesting.

Laura Ingraham

#92. Marco Rubio has felt the wrath of Chris Christie and proved that he has a glass jaw. And I think that the question is going to be could he withstand a similar barrage from Donald Trump, who is relentless in going after the people he thinks are a threat to him.

Joy-Ann Reid

#93. As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

Chris Christie

#94. I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Chris Christie

#95. We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Chris Christie

#96. Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Chris Christie

#97. We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chris Christie

#98. Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

Bill Maher

#99. If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

#100. The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.

Chris Christie