“When people are suffering, we’re Americans,” he said, recalling Hurricane Sandy. “There are some who will see politics in everything. Twenty-five-foot waves coming onto your shoreline don’t know partisanship.” …

“I came here to Washington D.C. on the first day of summer from New Jersey not because I don’t have anything to do back home but because I so admire what all of you do and what you stand for,” he said. “As a governor of a state that’s been devastated by the worst natural disaster in its history, I can tell you that the efforts of volunteers in our state were indispensable and continue to be indispensable to us being able to recover so quickly as a state.” …

“If the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy was sub par, I would’ve said it,” Christie justified. “I said to some of my Republican friends after this, ‘What did you expect me to do when the president showed up? Did you want me to wear my Romney sweatshirt?”