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" I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. "
Cory Booker
Knowledgeable
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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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" 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. "
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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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" My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about. "
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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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" It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government. "
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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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" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "
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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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" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "
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" This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular. "
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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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" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "
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" The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that. "
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" When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing. "
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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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" Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
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Born
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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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Government
" I am a Yale Law School graduate. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "
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" You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are. "
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" The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done. "
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" I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success. "
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