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" 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. "

Cory Booker

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" I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success. "

" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "

" 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. "

" Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "

" We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray. "

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

" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "

" Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains. "

" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "

" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government. "

" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "

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

" Newark faces real challenges. "

" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "

" I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey. "

" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "