Chris Christie
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.
But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.
The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.
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.
I'm so tired of talking about Warren Buffett.
Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.
If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.
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.
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.
I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.
I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.
We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.
I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.Collection: House
Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.Collection: People
Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.Collection: America
Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.Collection: Running
Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.Collection: Stupid
I am who I am, but I am not a bully.Collection: Who I Am
The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.Collection: President
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.Collection: Country
I think he [Donald Trump] is generally a good person, but you know what? He had no business being president of the United States. If I thought he did, I wouldn`t be running. I`d be helping him.Collection: Running
They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.Collection: Teacher
I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.Collection: Want
You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart!Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Beach
When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.Collection: President
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Winning
I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.Collection: Thinking
Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria. You fly in, it applies to you. And, yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if, in fact, they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the oval office is right now.Collection: Stupid
We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need to open our ears. The American people are not whispering to us. They are screaming to us. And they're screaming to us that it's our job to actually make this government work.It's so dysfunctional under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's so ineffective. It's so ineffectual that the American people say, we don't trust them to do anything anymore. So I'm not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees in this country.Collection: Country
The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.Collection: Home
The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.Collection: Cities
The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.Collection: Race
The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.Collection: Campaigns
I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.Collection: Smart
That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.Collection: Wall
We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.Collection: Religious
We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.Collection: Frustration
It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.Collection: White
This is a guy [Donald Trump] who has been very consistent on no amnesty, no legalization, for folks who have been coming to the country illegally.Collection: Country