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Chris Christie

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Chris Christie is a prominent Republican politician from New Jersey, best known for serving as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. During his tenure, he focused on fiscal reform, education, and infrastructure improvements, gaining national attention for his outspoken style and bipartisan efforts, particularly in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Christie has also served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he gained recognition for his work in combating public corruption and organized crime.

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Mar 6, 2019

to rise above the partisanship that we have in our country today.

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Mar 4, 2019

This is why you do not have family in appointed positions in the White House because it just clouds the judgment, impacts the judgment on every one of these steps.

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Nov 27, 2017

I think we have to be very careful about using the phrase always or never in this context.

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Nov 27, 2017

I made it clear to the President in my direct conversations with him, and every member of Congress who has asked me about this, I have said there is no avoiding having to increase funding to deal with this problem.

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Nov 27, 2017

What constitutes ineffective treatment is anything that's not evidence-based.

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Nov 27, 2017

What I would tell you is that when CDC says that four out of every five heroin addicts start with prescription opioids.

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Nov 27, 2017

You don't have the option of probation anymore. Your option is this: go to treatment or go to jail.

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Apr 11, 2017

I think the president was sending a very strong message, which knowing him I assume he's also said in private, which is I don't like this bickering and enough already and get your act together.

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Apr 11, 2017

Be seated and then dragged off the plane physically by law enforcement officers at the direction of United? It's outrageous. That's why I've asked the administration -- the Trump administration to say stop the overbooking until we set some…

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Apr 10, 2017

Governor Chris Christie is calling on the Trump administration to suspend the federal regulation that permits airlines to overbook flights and remove passengers as a result.

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Feb 12, 2017

General Flynn has said up to this point that he had not said anything like that to the Russian ambassador. I think now, he's saying he doesn't remember whether he did or not. So, that's a conversation he's going to need to have with the…

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Feb 5, 2017

The President has a structure inside the White House with three folks who are predominantly in charge of operations at the White House, Mr. Bannon, Mr. Kushner and Mr. Priebus. I think anyone who looks at this knows that it could have been…

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Jan 14, 2017

You cannot give Hilary Clinton a third term of Barrack Obama's leadership. I will not do that if I'm the nominee. She won't get within 10 miles to the White House.

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Jan 14, 2017

You cannot give Hillary Clinton a third term of Barack Obama's leadership. I will not do that. If I'm the nominee, she won't get within 10 miles of the White House.

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Nov 15, 2016

When people under investigation decide to take the law into their own hands, to obstruct justice, to attempt to impede the rule of law, it is our obligation to act swiftly and surely to end the obstruction.

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Nov 15, 2016

He undertook this activity in order to gain leverage over the cooperating witnesses.

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Nov 9, 2016

Politics are over now. People have spoken. Time to move to uniting the country.

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Sep 28, 2016

You don't jump to conclusions. You let the facts lead you to the conclusions.

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Sep 28, 2016

He needs to learn to bring that up even when it is not brought up by the moderators.

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Sep 19, 2016

There is no one who is better prepared to provide America with a strong leadership that it needs.

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Sep 19, 2016

It's both the magic and the mystery of politics that you never quite know when which is going to happen. Even when you think you do.

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Sep 19, 2016

I've been investigated by three different entities. Two of them led by partisan Democrats, who, you know, have all found that I had no knowledge of this incident and no involvement in it.

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Jul 12, 2016

The Democratic nominee for president put her own political convenience ahead of the safety and the security of the American people.

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Jul 12, 2016

When people under investigation decide to take the law into their own hands, to obstruct justice, to attempt to impede the rule of law it is our obligation to act swiftly and surely to end the obstruction.

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