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" If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while. "

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

" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "

" When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "

" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "

" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders. "

" There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. "

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

" America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis. "

" 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. "

" 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'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. "

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

" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "

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" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "

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