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In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
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Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Cory Booker
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The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.
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Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
Cory Booker -
We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.
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Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
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As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
Cory Booker -
I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
Cory Booker
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I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
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Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Cory Booker -
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Cory Booker -
Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?
Cory Booker
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Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
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People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
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My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
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When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield.
Cory Booker
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My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
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I think with Sharpe James, anything was possible.
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We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.
Cory Booker -
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Cory Booker