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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. "

" I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. "

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

" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "

" 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. "

" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "

" We must be agents of love. "

" No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. "

" Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. "

" Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. "

" 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. "

" Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. "

" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "

" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame. "

" 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. "

" If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents were obsessed with my education. "

" The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. "

" 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 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.' "