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

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" As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves. "

" 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. "

" 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 wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "

" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "

" 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. "

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

" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "

" 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. "

" There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. "

" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "

" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake. "