Chris Christie Quotes

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

What you do as president has consequences.

Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.

The person who manages the state is me.

Presidents ought to get the appointments they want for the cabinet and then be responsible for them.

To govern is to chose.

The Executive Branch, when they put the point on the spear, can get things done.

Governing is about selecting.

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.

Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power?

Georgians have made their decision, and now it's my job to keep our state moving forward.

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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