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" You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature. "

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

" I debated between law school and divinity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "

" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "

" 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. "

" No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. "

" We must be agents of love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future. "

" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "

" 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. "

" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "

" 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. "

" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "

" As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make. "

" You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame. "