Chris Christie: I Am Not a Micro-Manager

REPORTER: "You understand why people would have a hard time believing it that you didn't know about the lane closures, considering your management style and the focus of your cabinet, and you didn't know about it, what does that say about your ability to lead?"
CHRISTIE: "Well, listen, I am -- there's this, you know, kind of reputation out there of me being a micro-manager. I'm not -- I think if you talk to my staff, what they would tell you is that I delegate enormous authority to my staff, and enormous authority to my cabinet, and I tell them, come to me with the policy decisions that need to be made, with some high-level personnel decisions that need to be made, but I do not manage in that kind of micro way, first. Second, there's no way that anybody would think that I know about everything that's going on, not only in every agency of government at all times, but also every independent authority that New Jersey either has on its own or by state, both with New York, with Pennsylvania, and with Delaware."