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" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "
Cory Booker
Dangerous
Toxic
Really
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" If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while. "
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Things
" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "
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Fair
Economic
Market
" My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so. "
Cory Booker
Struggle
Beauty
Life
" I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. "
Cory Booker
Easy
Face
Change
" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "
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Living
Heat
Water
" I am a Yale Law School graduate. "
Cory Booker
School
Yale
Am
" 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. "
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Think
Big
Country
" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "
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Children
Education
Than
" Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights. "
Cory Booker
Tree
Democracy
Earth
" I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that. "
Cory Booker
End
Thought
War
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Born
Civil Rights
" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "
Cory Booker
Trying
Succeed
People
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Best
People
Talking
" Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. "
Cory Booker
Patriotism
You
Women
" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "
Cory Booker
Democrats
Platform
Our
" When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "
Cory Booker
Home
War
Patriotism
" When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "
Cory Booker
Know
People
Jump
" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "
Cory Booker
Be Different
Family
You
" Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. "
Cory Booker
Best
Up
Stand Up
" When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing. "
Cory Booker
Sit
Me
Start
" 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. "
Cory Booker
America
Generation
Hope
" I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. "
Cory Booker
Health
Mental Health
Justice
" It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. "
Cory Booker
Skin
War
Imagine
" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "
Cory Booker
Washington
Nothing
Done
" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "
Cory Booker
Cry
Commercial
Come
" I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. "
Cory Booker
Class
Grades
Wrote
" The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. "
Cory Booker
Me
Healing
Book
" I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. "
Cory Booker
Man
Housing
Brick
" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "
Cory Booker
Organizing
Child
Community
" We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it. "
Cory Booker
Ashamed
Best
Grandparents