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" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "
Cory Booker
Fair
Economic
Market
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" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "
Cory Booker
People
Always
Capture
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Lose
Coach
Degree
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Achievement
America
Fight
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Sit
Me
Start
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Born
Civil Rights
" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "
Cory Booker
Never
Decency
Imagine
" Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners. "
Cory Booker
Up
Engage
Got
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Home
War
Plan
" I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns. "
Cory Booker
Believe
Value
Supreme Court
" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "
Cory Booker
Toxic
Cynicism
Give
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Struggle
Beauty
Life
" I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. "
Cory Booker
Man
Housing
Brick
" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "
Cory Booker
Weakness
Life
Time
" I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. "
Cory Booker
Reality
Colleagues
Heart
" 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. "
Cory Booker
History
Freedom
Children
" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "
Cory Booker
Dangerous
Toxic
Really
" I debated between law school and divinity. "
Cory Booker
Law
Divinity
School
" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
Cory Booker
Simple
Disgust
Felt
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Trying
Nation
History
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Home
War
Patriotism
" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "
Cory Booker
Saving
Take
Grenade
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Never
King
" Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. "
Cory Booker
Difficult
Hard
Democracy
" In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. "
Cory Booker
Blind
Meeting
Development
" I have got the job of my dreams. "
Cory Booker
Got
Dreams
Job
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Man
Leader
I Am
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Opportunities
Children
Quality
" As a vegetarian eating a plateful of eggs, I found myself in this weird place where I didn't want to think about where those eggs came from. I didn't want to think about the treatment of the animals who produced those eggs. When I find myself trying not to think about things, it seems to me that I'm practicing avoidance. "
Cory Booker
Weird
Animals
Me
" There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do. "
Cory Booker
Need
Best
Doing
" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "
Cory Booker
Possible
Authentic
Myself