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" Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field. "

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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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" 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. "

" Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "

" I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president. "

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

" 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. "

" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "

" When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "

" 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. "

" Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness. "

" Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country. "

" As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. "

" 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. "

" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine. "

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

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

" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "

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

" I have not settled down with a life partner. "

" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "

" I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. "

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

" We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road. "

" Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "

" I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. "

" You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. "

" Newark faces real challenges. "