Chris Christie

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Donald Trump has been saying that I think for as long as I've been listening to him of late, and that's what he's going to do.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Thinking
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I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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Now there's going to be some decisions [Donald Trump] is going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I think what he's said let's first get all of the bad actors out of the country. And I think that's what's really important.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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Donald Trump wants to look at this situation [with immigrants] and deal with it in a humane way, and quite frankly, you know, I think this is the kind of thing people expect from a president of the United States.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Thinking
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The answer is I am not committed to doing anything in a new administration or not.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Answers
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Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.
- Chris Christie
Collection: The End Of The Day
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I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Blow
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I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.
- Chris Christie
Collection: People
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When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."
- Chris Christie
Collection: Sorry
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The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Tired
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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
Collection: Retirement
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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
Collection: Mistake
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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
Collection: Wall
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I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Children
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When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't say whatever they want to say. It doesn't mean they can't believe whatever they want to believe. Those are protected also. But businesses must serve the public. And that's a principle that we fought for in this country over many, many decades, when some were invoking religious freedom as an excuse to deny people on the basis of their race, on the basis of their religion, on the basis of sex and on the basis now of sexual orientation. Let's not confuse one thing with the other.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Running
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People have an absolute right to believe what they want to believe and to say what they want to say, and churches have an absolute protection to preach and do and not do whatever they choose to do within their houses of worship. But nondiscrimination laws apply to the commercial marketplace and they do protect all of us.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Believe
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I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Believe
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As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Personality
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I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Thinking
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Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Chinese
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New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Two
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I think people get so frustrated with Washington, D.C.That's why they're so angry with the - the electorate is so angry with everybody who is involved in government in Washington, D.C. Because if you listen to the folks up here [ on debate], you think that they weren't even there; they had nothing to do with this.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Thinking
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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
Collection: Differences
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If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal with Iran which gives them $150 billion to wage a war and try to extend their empire across the Middle East, why would you want to do it now? When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan and I say to him, "You have a friend again sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight," he'll change his mind.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Kings
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To me, what I've always said is that the president [Barack Obama] has set up an awful situation through his deal with Iran, because what his deal with Iran has done is empower them and enrich them. And that's the way ISIS has been created and formed here. ISIS is created and formed because of the abuse that [Bashar] Assad and his Iranian sponsors have rained down on the Sunnis in Syria.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Isis
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When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Iran
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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
Collection: Safety
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I had to make these decisions after 9/11, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.
- Chris Christie
Collection: America
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No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Running
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When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Pro Life
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We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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What we need to do, is restore those tools that have been taken away by the president [Barack Obama] and others, restore those tools to the NSA and to our entire surveillance and law enforcement community.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Taken
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I think people hear the question they want to hear.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Thinking
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We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
- Chris Christie
Collection: America
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We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Law
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We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Careers
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Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Information
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Finally, here at home, in one of her first decisions as Secretary of State, she set up a private e-mail server in her basement in violation of our national security. Let's face the facts: Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she cared about protecting America's secrets.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Home
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I believe in Governor Romney. I believe in him as a leader.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Believe
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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
Collection: Bullying
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Rudy [Giuliani] can talk about whatever he wants to talk about. He's my friend, I like him a lot and respect him, but I don't talk about the advice I give to Donald Trump.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Giving
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Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Running
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If people want safer streets, they want police supported, then they should vote for Donald Trump because that's what he'll do.
- Chris Christie
Collection: People
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What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Teacher
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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
Collection: Country
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The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country
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And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have on violence.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Country