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" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "
Cory Booker
American
Little
Together
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "
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" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "
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" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "
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" We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. "
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" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "
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" 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. "
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" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "
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" I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success. "
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" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "
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" It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. "
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War
Imagine
" If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong. "
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Planet
Healthy
Strong
" When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. "
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Senate
United
Diversity
" 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. "
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Democracy
Earth
" 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. "
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Church
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" 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. "
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Well
Out
" 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. "
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American
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" Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "
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" My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about. "
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" If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "
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" I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way. "
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" When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "
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