Cory Booker Quotes
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Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.
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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.
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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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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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Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
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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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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.
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Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
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I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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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.
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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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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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Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
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The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield.
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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.
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I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.
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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?
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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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I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.
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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.