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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. "
Cory Booker
Live
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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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" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "
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" 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. "
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" Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. "
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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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" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "
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" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "
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" 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. "
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" I debated between law school and divinity. "
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School
" 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. "
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" We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty. "
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" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "
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" We must be agents of love. "
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" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
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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's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. "
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" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "
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" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "
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" 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. "
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" You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. "
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