Christopher James Christie Quotes

• One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits – a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Retirement, Pension

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Government

• It’s not that I’m universally loved. We know I’m not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, ‘We like him, and we think he’s telling us the truth.’ I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

  Christopher James Christie

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in National, Universally, Loved

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Elected

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Turning, Argument

• This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens – which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Exactly, Entitlement

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Effective, Successfully

• The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Need, Entitlement, Afford

• Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complaining, Budget

• Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people’s government.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Make

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Control, Entitlement

• Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Back, Hopeless

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Special, Interests

• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  Christopher James Christie

  Topics in Challenge, Country

  Tags in Nation, Difficult

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Unacceptable

• You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Between, Public, World

• 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.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in People, Believe, American

Christopher James Christie (37)

Birth:	6th September, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Christopher James "Chris" Christie was born in Newark, New Jersey. He is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey since January 2010. A 1984 graduate of the University of Delaware, Christie earned a J.D. at Seton Hall University School of Law. He was elected county legislator in Morris County, serving from 1995 to 1998, during which time he generally pushed for lower taxes and lower spending. George W. Bush; the latter appointed him as United States Attorney for New Jersey, a position he held from 2002 to 2008.

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