After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
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… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We've got to get back to a country that can get things done. And my whole career has been marching and charging at and… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“Deterrents properly placed can help. But that is not enough. We are one society, and as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, what we… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who voted against TPA and has a lot of suspicions about Trans Pacific Partnership that are reflected in our concerns about… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump governs the way he campaigned, it'll be a disastrous presidency. This is a chance for him to be magnanimous, humble. To… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It did not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
![“I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO…” quote by Cory Booker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f37/cory-booker-2546_challenges_i-love-talking-about-the-challenges-newa_63218.jpg)
