Chris Christie Quotes

People can expect that from me as premier: If there's something to be done, something to be fixed, it'll happen.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

I’ve learned that governing is more difficult than criticizing.

When the public or the Council pass the buck up to me I am going to act.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.