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" We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. "
Cory Booker
Know
School
Great
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" Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there. "
Cory Booker
Live
Know
Pride
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Never
King
" We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. "
Cory Booker
Ideals
High
Hope
" I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president. "
Cory Booker
Know
Love
Work
" As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation. "
Cory Booker
I Can
Leader
Government
" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "
Cory Booker
Challenges
Most
Realize
" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "
Cory Booker
Senate
United
Diversity
" I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still. "
Cory Booker
America
Fight
Think
" Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake. "
Cory Booker
Fair
Give
Them
" 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. "
Cory Booker
American
You
Now
" 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
" You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. "
Cory Booker
Respect
Children
Education
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Born
Civil Rights
" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "
Cory Booker
Organizing
Child
Community
" When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family. "
Cory Booker
Spiritual
Roots
Family
" I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy. "
Cory Booker
Food
Policy
Very
" The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves. "
Cory Booker
Best
People
Talking
" 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
" 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 people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "
Cory Booker
Know
People
Jump
" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "
Cory Booker
Control
Government
Media
" 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
" We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it. "
Cory Booker
Ashamed
Best
Grandparents
" The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children. "
Cory Booker
Country
Oil
Natural
" If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while. "
Cory Booker
Just
Nice
Things
" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "
Cory Booker
Weakness
Life
Time
" Newark faces real challenges. "
Cory Booker
Real
Challenges
Faces
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Ideal
Concept
Our
" My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about. "
Cory Booker
Clear
Me
Manhood
" Do not forget from whence you've come. "
Cory Booker
Forget
You
Whence