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" 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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" 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

" 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 was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "

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

" Newark faces real challenges. "

" My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about. "

Cory Booker

Clear

Manhood

" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "

" 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. "

" Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake. "

" 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. "

" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "

" We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states. "

" Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners. "

Cory Booker

Engage

Got

" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "

" 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

" Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. "

" 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. "

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

" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "