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" I have not settled down with a life partner. "
Cory Booker
Life
Settled
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "
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" I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president. "
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Know
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Work
" I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform. "
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Want
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Drive
" 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. "
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Tree
Democracy
Earth
" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "
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Justice
Broken
" 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. "
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Blessings
Father
Sit
" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "
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Convenience
You
Comfort
" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "
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Control
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Media
" I love mayors. "
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I Love
Love
Mayors
" Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there. "
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Live
Know
Pride
" You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine. "
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You
Powerful
Beautiful
" No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. "
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Rules
Color
Job
" Do not forget from whence you've come. "
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Forget
You
Whence
" Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. "
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Soul
Future
Find
" These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause. "
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Us
Nation
Purpose
" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "
Cory Booker
Possible
Authentic
Myself
" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "
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Washington
Nothing
Done
" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "
Cory Booker
Tolerant
Love
Nation
" 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. "
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American
Growth
History
" I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey. "
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Parents
Church
Black
" 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. "
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Country
Together
Way
" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "
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System
Experience
Justice
" 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. "
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Race
Great
Start
" We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty. "
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Wealth
Greatness
People
" 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.' "
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End
Legacy
Life
" You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. "
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You
Pain
People
" It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. "
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Skin
War
Imagine
" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "
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Challenges
Most
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