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" 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

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" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "

Cory Booker

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Inclusive

" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "

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

" I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns. "

" 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. "

" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "

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

" 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. "

" We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. "

" I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. "

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. "

" 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. "

" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "

" Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights. "

" May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. "

" I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy. "

" I debated between law school and divinity. "

" 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

Start

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

" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "

" 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. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "

" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "

" My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton. "

" I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. "

Cory Booker

Knowledgeable

Challenges

" 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. "

" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "

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

" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "