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Chris Christie
stated on August 7, 2012 a news conference:

Says "a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988."

By Erin O'Neill • August 15, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference:

"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."

By Erin O'Neill • July 30, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference:

"We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000."

By Erin O'Neill • July 26, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution:

"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."

By Erin O'Neill • July 23, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 an appearance at the Brookings Institution:

"New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition."

By Bill Wichert • July 16, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution:

Says New Jersey’s tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure."

By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on June 26, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:

Says state Sen. Paul Sarlo "said in February on NJTV, ‘there will be no tax increases in this budget’" and "voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million."

By Bill Wichert • July 8, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 3, 2012 an interview on CNBC:

"If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president."

By Erin O'Neill • July 5, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 2, 2012 a speech before the state Legislature:

Says "our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation."

By Bill Wichert • July 4, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on June 15, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:

Says New Jersey’s job growth in May represents "25 percent of all the jobs created in the country."

By Bill Wichert • June 24, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on June 14, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:

"(Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....They’re down on the ground. They’re sweating. They’re twitching. It’s ugly, ‘cause I keep saying no."

By Bill Wichert • June 21, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2012 a town hall meeting:

"When I was U.S. Attorney we wound up putting 10 percent of the state Legislature in jail during my seven years."

By Erin O'Neill • June 11, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on May 23, 2012 an Assembly Budget Committee hearing:

On transportation financing

By Caryn Shinske • May 27, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on May 23, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:

Says Democratic legislators this year "don't want to cut your taxes under any circumstances."

By Bill Wichert • May 25, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on May 4, 2012 a speech at a Cato Institute event:

"We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate."

By Erin O'Neill • May 9, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on March 23, 2012 an appearance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University:

"To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then you're out of the union, but you've got to pay it every year, also required by statute. That’s called a representation fee."

By Bill Wichert • April 5, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on February 23, 2012 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program:

Says he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage.

By Caryn Shinske • March 25, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 his budget speech:

Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget "is still below the level of state spending when I took office."

By Bill Wichert • March 8, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 an interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight”:

Says "we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years."

By Erin O'Neill • March 4, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2012 an interview on CBS News’ "Face the Nation":

"(President Barack Obama) said unemployment was never gonna go over 8 percent if we passed the stimulus plan."

By Bill Wichert • February 27, 2012

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