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" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "
Cory Booker
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" I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy. "
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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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" If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong. "
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" I am a Yale Law School graduate. "
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" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "
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" 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. "
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" My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "
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" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "
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" 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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" We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. "
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" I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. "
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" Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. "
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" My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. "
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" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "
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" In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. "
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America
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" 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. "
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Thought
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" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "
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" The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. "
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" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "
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" You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns. "
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" Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. "
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" My parents were obsessed with my education. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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