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Cory Booker

American Politician

Born: Apr 27, 1969

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We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause. Cory Booker

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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. Cory Booker

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The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. Cory Booker

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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. Cory Booker

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We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty. Cory Booker

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Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. Cory Booker

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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. Cory Booker

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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

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. Cory Booker

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I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. Cory Booker

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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

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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

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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

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We must be agents of love. Cory Booker

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Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. Cory Booker

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I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. Cory Booker

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

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