"Pressed by [CNN's Anderson] Cooper on what he believes the time period in terms of weeks pregnant should be for a ban on abortion, Christie said, 'I don't think anything in my heart about time period. What I have in my heart is that every life is precious and should be protected.'" Source.

"For eight years they sent me Planned Parenthood funding in New Jersey, and for eight years I vetoed it and we sustained every one of those vetoes. No Planned Parenthood funding for eight years." (2:10)  Source.

“Religious organizations should be protected from having to do anything that violates their religious beliefs as a religious organization. That should be protected. But other businesses who want to do business, they should have to be able to do business under the laws of our country.” "...businesses should not be allowed to discriminate.” Source.

"We need to show that we will stand up for our friends in the world. You know what? Sometimes it's not easy, but that's the price we pay for being the biggest, strongest, richest, free-est country in the world, and if we want to remain that then this is what we need to do. And the less we do it, the more others will fill that vacuum, and I don't want my grandchildren to live in a world that's dominated by the Communist Russians and the Communist Chinese (16:43)  Source.

On 3/13/23 at 8:15pm, Tucker Carlson tweeted Christie's response to his Ukraine questionnaire:Former @GovChristie on Ukraine:“Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a national security issue that threatens our alliances and our standing in the world. Our objective is to assist Ukraine sufficiently to enable them to defeat Russian forces and restore their sovereignty. This effort is not about regime change in Russia; it is about respecting the sovereignty of free nations. Also, this is a proxy war being waged by Russia’s ally China against the United States. Due to their assistance to Russia and China’s recent action in the Middle East, it would be naive to call this anything but Chinese aggression. Our allies and our enemies are watching us. It is on us to assist our democratic allies in defending themselves against authoritarian aggression. If we do not, this aggression will spread and the void we leave will be filled by authoritarian regimes like China, Iran, North Korea and an empowered Russia if they triumph over Ukraine.”Tucker Carlson Tweet - 8:15 PM · Mar 13, 2023

“I think people who know me know that there will be no confusion on the part of (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping) when I'm President of the United States, about what American policy is, and that every day we will be fighting to make America the winner in this competition against China.” Source.
"We need to show strength to ensure that we have peace." "I don't have any interest in containing the Chinese economically. Let's compete with them." (3:54) "We need to reconfigure our defense budget. It's not that we don't spend enough; it's that we spend it stupidly. Our threat now is not Russia, it's China. And how do we contain China? More ships and more submarines. Those who control the South China Sea, making sure it's free, will be the ones who control and prevent any conflict." (4:17)  Source.

"When a friend is the subject of hate and violence in the world, America doesn't ask whether we stand or not, America moves quickly and stands with Israel to fight against this hate." (1:19:17 - Remarks on 10/28/23 at the Republican Jewish Coalition Conference)  Source

“The most disgusting part of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address this year was when he stood up, and he said, ‘We’ll all agree, right? We’re not going to do anything to Social Security?’ And both sides got up and cheered. [They’re] a group of liars and cowards, because they know that in 10 years, Medicare will be bankrupt. And in 11 years, Social Security will be bankrupt. We can make real savings over the long term by playing with eligibility age.” Source.

"...the first thing we have to do, and one of the first things I would do as president, is to say, we are imposing fiscal discipline again in this country." This comment and those following are after the 20:20:00 mark."... job one is to get spending under control, because, the more we spend, the less you can spend. And that's what's horrible for families making ends meet. "In relation to helping Ukraine: "We should be able to get our spending under control, and we should be able to have a strong military that will stand up for friends around the world who are free..." "So I think we can do both. But it's going to take discipline to say no to some of these crazy programs." Source.

“He knows he’s done something that is illegal and over the top.” Christie also said the president’s policy, “does nothing to control college costs. The reason people have higher loans is because college is more expensive. This does not make college less expensive. It makes it more expensive, when you’re giving away things.” Source.

In 2016, as NJ Governor, he vetoed an increase in the state minimum wage to $15/hr. saying, "Despite having a constitutional mandate in place, the legislature now wants to increase the minimum wage by almost 80 percent just three years later." Christie said the wage bill passed by Democrats, who control both houses of state legislature, failed to consider the ability of businesses to absorb the increased labor costs. Source.

"I probably wouldn't have done that at the start, and I said that at the time," he told CNN this month. "But now we've spent this money on building some of it; you might as well finish it now." Source. 

During a business roundtable at the Palace Theatre's Spotlight Room in Manchester, the former New Jersey governor said the next president should do more to secure the southern border and figure out a way for more immigrants to come into this country, which has 8 million unfilled jobs. "You need to get both sides in the same room and say we are not leaving until we have a compromise on our broken immigration system," Christie said. "There has to be a system now that is fairer than the one we've got." "Democrats will have to agree to spending more on border security while Republicans need to be open to providing more relief to "dreamers," American-born family members of illegal immigrants," Christie said. Asked about his current view on a citizenship path, Christie said, "All cards need to be on the table when it comes to immigration, but I'm not going to show any of those cards until we get to the table." Source.

"We need to double the number of beds that we have to detain people. Right now we have 38,000; we need 80,000 beds because for those people who are dangerous who we don't want to release back into the country, we need a place to detain them while they wait to get their hearing and either get admitted into the country or sent back. We don't have nearly enough capacity to do that." (22:23)  Source.

"We're spending about $800 billion nationwide a year on K-12 education, and I think it's time to have the federal government lead the way and encourage states that are already providing educational choice and those that are not to move much more towards a choice model, and not just for underprivileged folks but for everybody. And public schools will only get better if they have to compete, and if they have to compete in meaningful way against other options --- private schools, parochial schools, but also within the public system a broader availability of charter schools and renaissance schools which operate much differently." (10:02)"I think that that competition leads to other reforms that are really necessary. For instance, having a longer school year. Having a 10 and a half to 11 month school year rather than the school year we do now. Having longer school days. Kids need more time, both every day and throughout the year, to be educated in the right way and especially kids who come from our inner cities and may not necessarily have the support at home to encourage the type of learning that becomes holistic. So we need to reform this in every way we can and provide more choice and give parents the financial resources they need to be able to effectuate that choice." (11:35)  Source

"We don't need a federal Department of Education and we don't need to pay for it. I'd rather have that money go to parents than go to bureaucrats in Washington DC." (9:39)  Source.

"I really believe there's no one better situated to make difficult decisions about their children's future than their mother and father." (1:50)  "When did we as Republicans decide that government was a better decider of what happened in a family than the mother and father?" (2:50)  "The parents should be able to decide where their child will thrive." (7:23)  Source.

“What I learned in those seven years [2002-2008 as a federal prosecutor] was that we were spending much too much time talking about gun laws against law-abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.” “I don’t think with 350 million or so guns out there that tighter gun control is going to keep the gun out of the hands of someone who’s going to do what happened in Las Vegas or what happened in Uvalde or what happened in Sandy Hook.” Source.

In 2024 [sic], his presidential campaign told The New York Times that Christie “respects same-sex marriage and considers it legally settled.” Source.

He is Catholic. (5:47)  Source.

"He also said earlier this week that the repeal of voter ID laws across the country brings 'some concern that the election system is not as fair as it should be'." Source.

“Critical race theory is now being used as an umbrella phrase…for certain types of liberal agenda items that are being, in my view, pushed in the schools. I don’t believe that any child should be taught that one of the determining factors of how you treat someone sitting next to you is their race. And that’s clearly being taught in our schools now… to me, it’s just wrong.” Source.

“A woman is someone who is born with that biological gender at birth." Source. 

"Biological males should not compete in women's sports. That's why they're called women's sports." (0:26)  Source.

From 2015: "We’ve laid out a national energy plan that says that we should invest in all types of energy … If you ask who the top three states are that produce solar energy — California and Arizona are easy, but No. 3 is New Jersey. Why? Because we worked with the private sector to make solar energy affordable and available to businesses and individuals in our state. We need to make sure that we do everything we can across all kinds of energy: natural gas, oil, absolutely, but also, where it’s affordable, solar. Wind in Iowa has become very affordable and it makes sense. That’s the way we deal with global warming, climate change, or any of those problems — not through government intervention, not through taxes. And for God’s sake, don’t send Washington another dime until they stop wasting the money that we’re already sending there." Source.

"I am someone who is in favor of an 'all of the above' strategy because we can't disarm ourselves economically while we convert to cleaner energy, and so we can't have our aspirations outstrip our innovation...I am someone who favors a greater use of nuclear power, and the reason I do is I've watched the example in my home state. We are the most densely populated state in America...and we have gotten 53% of our electricity annually from nuclear. We do it safely in the most densely populated state in America and have been doing that for over 50 years. Nuclear can really help us reach both reliability and to get down to net zero on carbon. We need to continue to support and develop wind and solar...but we can't abandon oil and gas...We should use all this as we convert to something that makes sense." (0:20)  Source.