Cory Booker

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

— Cory Booker

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

— Cory Booker

I debated between law school and divinity.

— Cory Booker

I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

— Cory Booker

I still have that new senator smell.

— Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

— Cory Booker

I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.

— Cory Booker

If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

— Cory Booker

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a…

— Cory Booker

We need to create an economy that works for everyone, not crony capitalism and unchecked corporate consolidation.

— Cory Booker

When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.

— Cory Booker

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

— Cory Booker

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

— Cory Booker

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

— Cory Booker

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover…

— Cory Booker

Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.

— Cory Booker

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for…

— Cory Booker

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and…

— Cory Booker

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all…

— Cory Booker

I think there's a lot of folks who believe that this is a time that Democrats have to fight fire with fire.…

— Cory Booker

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are…

— Cory Booker

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's…

— Cory Booker

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home,…

— Cory Booker

Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your…

— Cory Booker

Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated…

— Cory Booker

As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into…

— Cory Booker

People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I…

— Cory Booker

Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how…

— Cory Booker

I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism…

— Cory Booker

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as…

— Cory Booker

I want you to understand that racial justice is not about justice for those who are black or brown; racial justice is…

— Cory Booker

Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render…

— Cory Booker

We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's…

— Cory Booker

The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on…

— Cory Booker

You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You…

— Cory Booker

“We had a massive budget shortfall with a structural budget deficit and seemingly no way to close it; the city had been…

— Cory Booker

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

— Cory Booker

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

— Cory Booker

Americans are losing faith in this country's ability to work for them.

— Cory Booker

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

— Cory Booker