Top 100 Chris Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.”

— Chris Christie

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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.”

— Chris Christie

55. “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

56. “America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.”

— Chris Christie

57. “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

58. “Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it’s awful policy.”

— Chris Christie

59. “You need a strong, tough leader to restore America’s greatness. This is the best person to do that.”

— Chris Christie

60. “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

61. “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.”

— Chris Christie

62. “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

63. “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

64. “I don’t hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.”

— Chris Christie

65. “Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That’s what I was committed to doing.”

— Chris Christie

66. “America has been betrayed. We’ve been betrayed by the leadership that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have provided to this country over the last number of years. Think about just what’s happened today.”

— Chris Christie

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “Leadership is not about me, it’s about our country.”

— Chris Christie

71. “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

72. “Our party has failed in going in to those places because we’ve said, well, we don’t get instant gratification back. So therefore, why go there. And we need to go there, show up and campaign in places where we’re uncomfortable.”

— Chris Christie

73. “If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn’t pining to be president of the United States.”

— Chris Christie

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “Marijuana addiction is a serious problem.”

— Chris Christie

78. “I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.”

— Chris Christie

79. “What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern.”

— Chris Christie

80. “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

81. “I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that’s other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that’s it.”

— Chris Christie

82. “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

83. “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

84. “What is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton done to this country? That the most basic responsibility of an administration is to protect the safety and security of the American people.”

— Chris Christie

85. “People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can’t be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.”

— Chris Christie

86. “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.”

— Chris Christie

87. “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

88. “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

89. “The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.”

— Chris Christie

90. “You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart.”

— Chris Christie

91. “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

92. “The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.”

— Chris Christie

93. “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

94. “When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.”

— Chris Christie

95. “No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.”

— Chris Christie

96. “Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.”

— Chris Christie

97. “I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.”

— Chris Christie

98. “I’m a former federal prosecutor, I’ve fought terrorists and won and when we get back in the White House we will fight terrorists and win again and America will be safe.”

— Chris Christie

99. “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

100. “I’m quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.”

— Chris Christie