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Monday 22nd of July 2024

NJ Republican Chris Christie's Pledge of Allegiance 2.0 I pledge allegiance to the millionaires and billionaires behind Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, and to their interests above all others, so help me God, come hell or high water. The Pledge of Allegiance 2.0 is the implicit pledge made by signing Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Mike looks more like a vice-president — he's out of central casting. Donald Trump's explanation to Chris Christie of why he chose Pence as his running mate instead of him © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election From the moment I got into the race,  the decision that I made was really simple. I would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win. I feel no differently today because this is a fight for the soul of our party and the soul of our country. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024, announcing he's suspending his campaign © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election I’ve always said that if there came a point in time in this race where I couldn’t see a path to accomplishing that goal [of winning the nomination and defaating Biden], that I would get out. And it’s clear to me tonight that there isn’t a path for me to win the nomination, which is why I’m suspending my campaign tonight for President of the United States. … I also know though it’s the right thing for me to do because I want to promise you this. I’m going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be President of the United States again, and that’s more important than my own personal ambition. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election [I]f Donald Trump becomes the nominee of this party, the moment that it happened was when Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis, and Tim Scott and Mike Pence and Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy stood on that stage in Milwaukee in August, and when we were asked would you support someone who is a convicted felon to be President of the United States, they raised their hands. Give Ron credit. He had to look at everybody  else first to see if he wanted to raise his hand, but then he raised his hand. Kind of like  cheating off somebody’s paper in high school.  They raised their hands and I did not and will not and I cannot countenance that behavior. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves. Donald Trump to Chris Christie, his transition team leader © 2019 Kwiple.com
Diets I'm not eating Oreos any more. Neither is Chris. [pointing to Chris Christie] You're not eating Oreos any more. No more Oreos for either of us. Donald Trump, at a May 19, 2016, New Jersey rally, vowing to never eat Oreos again to protest the announcement by Nabisco, Oreo's parent, that it would move bakery jobs from Chicago to Mexico © 2018 Kwiple.com
Employment General, what job do you want? Ivanka Trump, to Michael T. Flynn, whom she invited to a Nov. 11, 2016, meeting of the Trump transition team without telling chairman Chris Christie, who had warned Trump about hiring Flynn © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming You need to clean out your ears. Chris Christie, to a young girl who said she heard him say humans contribute to climate change by breathing, which he insisted he had never said in spite of videotape showing him saying it © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary basket of deplorables (bas'kit ov di plôr'ə bəls), n. Collective name for Trump's major supporters and allies, including: Roger Ailes, sexual predator; Steve Bannon, platform provider for white supremacists and conspiracy theorists; Chris Christie, Republican jetsam; Ann Coulter, self-described “mean- spirited bigot”; Rudy Giuliani, 9/11's prime beneficiary; Sean Hannity, Fox News dumbass; Paul Manafort, adviser to dictators; Roger Stone, self-described “dirty trickster”; Donald Turmp, Jr. and Eric Trump, America's Uday and Qusay © 2017 Kwiple.com
Politics Personal ambition is a necessary element for any political candidate. You got to get out of bed in the morning and be able to really believe in your heart that you have something to offer to folks that’s better and different. I have no argument with people who are involved in politics being ambitious. You need to have it, but it can’t be  what governs your decision-making. Ambition can’t be what makes you decide how to do things as a public figure. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidency Imagine just for a moment, if 9-11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would’ve done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would’ve put himself first, before the country. And anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be President of the United States is unfit themselves to be President of the United States. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party As a party, we need to be willing to take the responsibility for the part we’ve played in getting here. Our country is angry. It’s divided. It’s accomplishing little, and it is  leading our citizens to be exhausted. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two. Chris Christie © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I made a political decision eight years ago when I dropped out of the race in 2016. I looked at the polls and I decided that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee  and that since I'd known him for fifteen years, that I could make him a better candidate and if he won, maybe a better president. I knew his flaws, but I also knew he was going to win the noimination, so I decided I could get behind him and support him. I let the ambition get ahead of and in control of the decision-making, and after I figured that out, I promised myself and I promised  my wife that I would never, ever do that again. And I'm not going to. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie Man up and say I'm fat. Chris Christie, to former governor Jon Corzine © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country. Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, on post-9/11 threats of terrorism © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He makes enemies and keeps them. Chris Christie portrayed by his mentor, former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he’s angry. He wants you to be angry so that you’ll relate to his anger and then to vote for him. Please understand this. I have known him well for 22 years, more  than anybody else in this race has known him, and I can promise you this. If you put him back behind the desk in the Oval Office and the choice comes and the decision is needed to be made as to whether he puts himself first or he puts you first, how much more evidence do you need that he will pick himself? Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Christie Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  I think we see a pretty consistent pattern of him wishing he was a dictator, wishing he could be Putin in America. That’s what's dark to me about it. That's what he really wants. He wants to be a dictator. Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Christie © 2023 Kwiple.com
Sticklers say I never said I personally appeared before the FISA court. I said we appeared, as the Justice Department. Chris Christie, who, during the first 2016 Republican presidential debate referred to his time as United States attorney for New Jersey by saying he was, “the only person on this stage … who has gone before the Foreign Intelligence Service [Surveillance] Court” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest We need to have strength and decision-making and authority back in the Oval office and that is why today I am proud to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America. Chris Christie, announcing 2016 presidential campaign © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Surely you jest When he was recently asked why most New Jersey residents didn't want him to be president, Mr. Christie said it was likely because they wanted him to remain governor. Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2015, which also noted Christie's 30% approval rating as governor © 2015 Kwiple.com