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" The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are. "

Cory Booker

Constitution

Year

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "

" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "

" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "

" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "

" 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. "

" If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences. "

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "

" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "

" Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. "

" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "

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

Cory Booker

Engage

Got

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

" We must be agents of love. "

" I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen. "

" Newark faces real challenges. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. "

" 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. "