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

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

People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world.

I debated between law school and divinity.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

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

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

My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

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

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

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

My father was not going to let me sit back and just consume my blessings. He wanted me to contribute, and to do that, you have to be mission-oriented.

You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

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

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

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

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

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

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

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

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

I still have that new senator smell.

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

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

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

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

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

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.

I have not settled down with a life partner.

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

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

It takes too much energy to hate.

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

When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

I have got the job of my dreams.

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

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

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

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

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

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

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

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.

We're a nation of hope, of high ideals.

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

We must be agents of love.

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

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

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

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.