Chris Christie: “I have big things to accomplish here. And that does not include leaving and running for national office.”

“Once you go through the thought process of convincing yourself that you can be president, and then the next step that you should be president, that doesn’t leave your brain.”

This is against type for him. I'm sure it was a difficult decision. I think his analysis was, he cannot live with a nuclear weapon in Iran, and Israel did all of the heavy lifting.

“Am I looking at it? Look, anybody who comes up here — anybody who comes up here — and has ever run for president and not won and told you they’re not looking at it again is lying,”

“I’m going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.”