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" 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
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" 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
" This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular. "
Cory Booker
Way
Unique
Trying
" I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety. "
Cory Booker
Matter
Field
Church
" 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
" Newark faces real challenges. "
Cory Booker
Real
Challenges
Faces
" We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny. "
Cory Booker
Destiny
Success
Independence
" The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist. "
Cory Booker
Race
Great
Start
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Right
Perception
Only
" 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
" I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. "
Cory Booker
Health
Mental Health
Justice
" I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.' "
Cory Booker
Gay
Voting
Me
" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "
Cory Booker
Just
More
Inclusive
" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "
Cory Booker
Fair
Economic
Market
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Media
Social Media
Society
" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "
Cory Booker
Thrive
Collective
Good
" The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done. "
Cory Booker
Ego
People
Me
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Everything
Will
Wrong
" 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
" 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. "
Cory Booker
New
Well
Out
" I debated between law school and divinity. "
Cory Booker
Law
Divinity
School
" In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. "
Cory Booker
American
America
History
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Hate
Together
America
" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "
Cory Booker
Long Time
Want
Which
" Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. "
Cory Booker
Built
Any
Just
" Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government. "
Cory Booker
Think
Food
Government
" 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
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Growth
American
American Dream
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Most
Debate
Challenges
" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "
Cory Booker
People
Always
Capture
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Moon
Map
Patriotism