Chris Christie, March 26, 2007: “Listen, I plead guilty to having raised money for Governor George W. Bush because I thought he was the best person to be President of the United States. And I did it in a completely appropriate fashion and enthusiastically for the President. And there’s no mystery to the fact that I was appointed to this job because, in part, I had a relationship with the President of the United States” “Anybody who receives a political appointment — I am a political appointee — there’s going to be some measure of politics involved with that appointment.”