Chris Christie: “The Jersey Shore's open for business.”

“For our party’s sake, if we do a lot of losing six weeks from today, I wonder whether we’re going to say, OK, we need to change this approach and change this kind of wing of the party from being the dominant wing and having a different…

This is not a message of unity in the face of what could have been a national tragedy.

This is an embarrassing episode for the Department of Justice [that] further undercuts the public confidence in our system of justice.

“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.”