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" Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government. "

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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, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field. "

Cory Booker

Country

Together

Way

" I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. "

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" 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. "

" The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done. "

Cory Booker

Ego

People

" 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 institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. "

" I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy. "

" 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; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause. "

Cory Booker

Debate

Become

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

" The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist. "

" In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. "

" I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "

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

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

" As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. "

" The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health. "

" This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America. "

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

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

Cory Booker

Best

Stand Up

" Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame. "

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

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

" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "

" 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. "

" Do not forget from whence you've come. "

" 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. "

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

" I have got the job of my dreams. "

" The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves. "