Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. "
Cory Booker
Growth
American
American Dream
Related Quotes:
" We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. "
Cory Booker
Ideals
High
Hope
" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "
Cory Booker
Convenience
You
Comfort
" I am a Yale Law School graduate. "
Cory Booker
School
Yale
Am
" 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
Know
God
Darkness
" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "
Cory Booker
Choice
You
Responsibility
" 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
World
Reflecting
People
" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "
Cory Booker
Judge
Connected
Realize
" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "
Cory Booker
Thrive
Collective
Good
" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "
Cory Booker
American
Growth
History
" There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do. "
Cory Booker
Need
Best
Doing
" What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing. "
Cory Booker
American
You
Now
" 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 nation will increasingly be in peril. "
Cory Booker
Opportunities
Children
Quality
" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "
Cory Booker
Political
Justice
Broken
" I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. "
Cory Booker
Family
Own
Newark
" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
Cory Booker
Simple
Disgust
Felt
" I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. "
Cory Booker
Moon
Map
Patriotism
" Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. "
Cory Booker
Soul
Future
Find
" America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis. "
Cory Booker
Rich
Enough
America
" We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road. "
Cory Booker
Right
Perception
Only
" Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. "
Cory Booker
Love
Value
Religion
" The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. "
Cory Booker
Life
Always
Running
" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "
Cory Booker
I Am
People
Caring
" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "
Cory Booker
Happened
Who
Temporary
" I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen. "
Cory Booker
Everything
Will
Wrong
" Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains. "
Cory Booker
World
Small Things
Small
" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "
Cory Booker
System
Experience
Justice
" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "
Cory Booker
Children
Education
Than
" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "
Cory Booker
Saving
Take
Grenade
" I debated between law school and divinity. "
Cory Booker
Law
Divinity
School
" 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 chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "
Cory Booker
Life
Worry
Today