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" 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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" 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. "

Cory Booker

Trying

Nation

History

" 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. "

" I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. "

" 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. "

" I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "

" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "

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

Cory Booker

Just

Inclusive

" We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox. "

" Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that. "

" We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. "

" The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are. "

" Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. "

" We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. "

" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "

" 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. "

" These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. "

" As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make. "

Cory Booker

Think

You

" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world. "

" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "

" 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. "

" I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. "

" 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. "

" 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. "