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" 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
Me
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" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "
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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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" 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. "
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Children
Education
" 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. "
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Judging
Politics
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" 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. "
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" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "
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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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Most
Debate
Challenges
" You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome. "
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You
Comfort
" Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. "
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Love
Value
Religion
" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "
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Long Time
Want
Which
" 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. "
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Live
Know
Pride
" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "
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Attitude
America
Country
" After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. "
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School
Fight
Justice
" Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "
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Way
Align
Vegan
" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "
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Living
Heat
Water
" You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine. "
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You
Powerful
Beautiful
" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "
Cory Booker
Marriage
Right
Choice
" The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done. "
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Ego
People
Me
" 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. "
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Good
Bridges
Loving
" If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences. "
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Think
Big
Country
" I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform. "
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Want
Change
Drive
" You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. "
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You
Pain
People
" There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do. "
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Doing
" We must be agents of love. "
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Agents
Must
" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "
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Never
Decency
Imagine
" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "
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Democrats
Platform
Our
" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "
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Tolerant
Love
Nation
" You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are. "
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Day
People
You
" Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development. "
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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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American
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