Chris Christie

I agree with all of those attorneys general who have looked at this and concluded this is the best way to go.

The history tells us, sir. History tells us after the Arthur Andersen debacle that jobs were lost.

What we achieved in doing this and what the public does know about this is that no taxpayer money was spent on any of these monitors.

Well, I wish you had been there, sir, because if you had have been there I suspect, given that attitude, we would have had a lot less arguing with Zimmer and the counsel than we actually did.

I don't know where you get the number from, first of all, because I do not know how much his total fees were.

We believe we got the best monitor in General Ashcroft, after they had interviewed him.

This agreement required that each and every one of those companies post on their Web site and update quarterly the names of all the surgeons they were making consulting payments to.

The reform that they achieved in my view was extraordinary.

Negotiating these agreements was akin to landing five airplanes on the same runway at the same time.

It would have been Arthur Andersen all over again, but with this time, and with the entire--and, of course, in this case it would have the entire U.S. sector.

Allegations of this came up much, much later on in a much more political context.

You were not in the room when the negotiations took place, sir, and I was.