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I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. — 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 Christian, all that I am. — Cory Booker

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

I debated between law school and divinity. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. — Cory Booker

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

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

If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort. — Cory Booker

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. — Cory Booker

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. — Cory Booker

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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

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

I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. — Cory Booker

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

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. — Cory Booker

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. — Cory Booker

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

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. — Cory Booker

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

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. — Cory Booker

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

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. — Cory Booker

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

My parents were obsessed with my education. — Cory Booker

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. — Cory Booker

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

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

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. — Cory Booker

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 ideals of our nation. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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. — Cory Booker

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. — Cory Booker

I am a Yale Law School graduate. — Cory Booker

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

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield — Cory Booker

It takes too much energy to hate. — Cory Booker

Do not forget from whence you've come. — Cory Booker

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

I have not settled down with a life partner. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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. — Cory Booker

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

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! — Cory Booker

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

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

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature. — Cory Booker

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

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

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. — Cory Booker

There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker. — Alex Pareene

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. — Cory Booker

I have got the job of my dreams. — Cory Booker

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

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

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. — 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 an indistinguishable light. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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

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

We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. — Cory Booker

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. — Cory Booker

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

Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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

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

We must be agents of love. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

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

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. — Cory Booker

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