Cory Booker

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

— Cory Booker

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

— Cory Booker

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great…

— Cory Booker

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping…

— Cory Booker

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

— Cory Booker

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

— Cory Booker

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

— 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

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 live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my…

— Cory Booker

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and…

— Cory Booker

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me…

— Cory Booker

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory…

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“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It…

— Cory Booker

I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still…

— Cory Booker

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in…

— Cory Booker

Speaking as somebody who voted against TPA and has a lot of suspicions about Trans Pacific Partnership that are reflected in our…

— Cory Booker

I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest…

— Cory Booker

My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their…

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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger…

— Cory Booker

You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

— Cory Booker

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from…

— 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

We need to be acting responsible as adults, and I don't endorse in any way the irresponsible use of marijuana. But I…

— Cory Booker

It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be…

— Cory Booker

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of…

— Cory Booker

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to…

— Cory Booker

I've taken on impossible fights before and won and I've done it not by taking on the tactics and techniques of demagogues…

— Cory Booker

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not…

— Cory Booker

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go…

— Cory Booker

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon…

— Cory Booker

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of…

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I sit in the Senate, and see what Republicans are often advocating, it's those kind of tax loopholes for the richest of…

— Cory Booker

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was…

— Cory Booker

You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to…

— Cory Booker

In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to…

— Cory Booker