Cory Booker Quotes

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• Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started,…
• I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went…
• These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in…
• My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
• 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…
• One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest…
• In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
• We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation;…
• In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged…
• 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…
• I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
• As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
• The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.
• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due…
• If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our…
• May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women…
• Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
• We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial…
• Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.
• We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American…

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