Christie: GOP Needs To Put Up Or Shut Up If It Wins Congress

Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, Governor Chris Christie said the GOP needs to get real about reducing the size of government should they take over congress.

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CARL QUINTANILLA: Is the model of governing that you have brought to New Jersey successfully, can you replicate that on a federal level? When you have to answer constituencies in San Francisco and Seattle and Chicago? It’s not all in the garden state.

GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Listen, it’s much more difficult. I mean, the bigger government gets the more difficult it is to change it and to manage it and so it’s not easy. It won’t be easy for anybody. It wouldn’t be easy for President Obama if he wanted to change it to make it smaller. It’s always easy for government to get bigger because you’re saying yes to somebody. It’s hard to say no but we have to and so it will be harder on the federal level. You’re right, Carl. There’s no question. But I saw Eric Cantor here before. They now — Republicans, my party, if we win the Congress we got to put up or shut up. This is it, we failed the last time. We went away from our principles and we paid for it. And now the price is even higher if we don’t.