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" The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. "
Cory Booker
Life
Always
Running
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" As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make. "
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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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" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "
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" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "
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" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "
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" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
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" 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. "
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" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "
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" I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. "
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" Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "
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Vegan
" 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. "
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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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" Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. "
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" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "
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Give
" The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that. "
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Want
Mentality
" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "
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Body
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "
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" I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. "
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World
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