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" I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. "
Cory Booker
Family
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Newark
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "
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" 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. "
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" May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. "
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" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "
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" You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. "
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" There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do. "
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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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America
Country
" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "
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Always
Capture
" 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. "
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World
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" One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation. "
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Concept
Our
" What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing. "
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You
Now
" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "
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Cry
Commercial
Come
" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "
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" I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. "
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Seen
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" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "
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Connected
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" You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine. "
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You
Powerful
Beautiful
" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "
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Toxic
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" 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. "
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Matter
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" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "
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" As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny. "
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" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "
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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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Food
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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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" I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. "
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