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" 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. "

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" 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

" Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development. "

" 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. "

" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "

" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light. "

" These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause. "

Cory Booker

Nation

Purpose

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

" 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. "

" I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. "

" If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. "

" Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that. "

" We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause. "

Cory Booker

Debate

Become

" It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government. "

" We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. "

" We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states. "

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

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

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

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

" We must be agents of love. "

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

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox. "

" These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. "

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