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

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

" Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. "

" Newark faces real challenges. "

" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "

" I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.' "

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

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

" After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. "

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

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

" We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray. "

" I have got the job of my dreams. "

" 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. "

" I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. "

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

" When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I am a Yale Law School graduate. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety. "