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" 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
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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. "
Cory Booker
Work
Valleys
Law
" 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. "
Cory Booker
Constitution
Year
Think
" 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
" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "
Cory Booker
Judging
Politics
Tea
" Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "
Cory Booker
Home
War
Plan
" 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
" 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. "
Cory Booker
True
Unity
Greatness
" 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
" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "
Cory Booker
Possible
Authentic
Myself
" When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "
Cory Booker
Home
War
Patriotism
" 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
" The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. "
Cory Booker
Me
Healing
Book
" 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
" Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country. "
Cory Booker
People
Community
You
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "
Cory Booker
Rights
Never
King
" 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
" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
Cory Booker
Simple
Disgust
Felt
" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "
Cory Booker
Saving
Take
Grenade
" 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
" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "
Cory Booker
Cry
Commercial
Come
" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "
Cory Booker
Attitude
America
Country
" 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 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
" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "
Cory Booker
Nation
Seek
Change
" 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
" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "
Cory Booker
Toxic
Cynicism
Give
" There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. "
Cory Booker
Law
Small
School
" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "
Cory Booker
Choice
You
Responsibility
" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "
Cory Booker
Fair
Economic
Market
" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "
Cory Booker
See
You
Body