I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.
I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that’s other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that’s it.
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Here’s what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it’s always different at the end.
I don’t think there’s anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That’s my view, and that’ll be the view of our state because I wouldn’t sign a bill that – like the one that was in New York.
We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other.
And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I’ve been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I’m no different when I’m sitting with you than I am when I’m at home or anyplace else.
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That’s what I was committed to doing.
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we’ve had folks who’ve been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.
New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.
We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.
The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.
Dammit, America is a hellhole and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.
Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.
I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.
We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.
As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.