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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.
Cory Booker
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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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Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
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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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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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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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Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Cory Booker
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Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
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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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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 come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
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My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
Cory Booker
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
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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 think with Sharpe James, anything was possible.
Cory Booker
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Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
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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.
Cory Booker