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Cory Booker

Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. Previously he served as Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. Booker was born in Washington, D.C. and then raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. He attended Stanford University, where he played college football and received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Master of Arts in sociology, before earning a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. Upon returning home, he received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. Booker began his political career as a Newark City Councilor from 1998 to 2002. He ran for Mayor in 2002, but lost to incumbent Sharpe James; he ran again in 2006 and won against deputy mayor Ronald Rice. During his tenure as Mayor, his priorities were reducing crime and encouraging economic development projects. He gained a national reputation for his personal involvement in public service, particularly through his use of social media tools such as Twitter to connect with constituents.

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There is one man now who is ready to go to the center of the arena, who is our best shot to beat Donald Trump, i believe in Joe. I believe in Joe.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I dont know what Hunter Biden has to do with the phone call.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

I'm proud of the ideas we brought to this Democratic primary and, more importantly, the values we championed throughout - that the only way we make progress is by bringing people together - even when we were told that our approach couldn't win.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

That's like the days when your opening act is much bigger than the person who is doing the concert, that's very, very kind, brother.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I like nice people. He's a really good guy, he's just a nice human being who cares.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm glad he's in this experience as well, andrew doesn't take himself too seriously. He is who he is.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I just want to give him a hug, if I can.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Well, if I'm president, one of the things I am going to do is invite him over for dinner.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

If Cory Booker had told me back in June that we were going to miss a debate stage, I would have said, that would end the campaign, now, it's almost comical to me, to be frank.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

What our campaign talks about all the time is, we started this campaign with a message, and we've been driving that message the whole campaign, i can't speak to Pete Buttigieg's campaign.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't really give that much credence to complaints from The House about the process when they wouldn't even participate in it.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

You know what you need to donate to political campaigns?Disposable income, the way we fix it this is we take Martin Luther Kingsmessage of a guaranteed minimum income, a freedom dividend of $ 1,000 a month for all Americans -- Id guarantee if we had a freedom dividend... I would not be the only candidate of color on this stage tonight.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Fixing our broken criminal justice system remains one of the most challenging issues plaguing our nation. Formerly incarcerated individuals continue to face overwhelming obstacles as they rejoin their communities, it's often difficult to obtain jobs and housing and many have lost their right to vote. These measures signed today by Governor Murphy will help restore fairness to the criminal justice system and remove some of the fundamental barriers to re-entry.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The three-month House impeachment process has uncovered alarming evidence that an American president used his official power for personal gain, put our national security at risk, and obstructed the investigation, as this process heads to the Senate for trial, Ill uphold my sacred oath to protect defend the Constitution.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I hope people around( Bloomberg) are talking to Cory Booker about why that plays into what is for the black community in particular, just these are signs of frustration that we continue to deal with issues, whether it was the black face controversies from earlier this year, to the challenges that I don't think folks understand with Kamala Harris dropping out of the race.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Were spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially- were still fighting to get onit, but could have six people with no diversity whatsoever, the way this is shaping up, especially with the rules of the DNC, it is preferencing millionaires and billionaires and a lot of other things that dont ever translate into viabilityin Iowa.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I celebrate the people who are in the race.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Look, the last debate was unbelievable. We had our best fundraising days online in the entire campaign. The surge since then -- even my New Hampshire trip we were kind of blown away, so we see the energy, we see the surge. If we can continue raising money online, we're going to start doing paid advertising, like you're seeing from a number of campaigns -- it's helping their polling numbers.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

The tax the way were putting it forward right now, the wealth tax, Im sorry its cumbersome, its been tried by other nations, its hard to evaluate. We can get the same amount of revenue through just taxation, but again, we as Democrats, have got to start talking not just about how you tax from a stage, but how wegrow wealth in this country amongst those disadvantaged communities that are not seeing it.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I thought you might have been high when you said it.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I thought you might have been high when you said that, marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people. The war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people. So let me just say this : With more African Americans under criminal supervision in American than all the slaves since 1850, do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I only have one choice : to do my job, politics be damned.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I feel like it was unacceptable to me that President Donald Trump was given a venue which President Donald Trump filled principally with people President Donald Trump brought instead of students from this great university, members from the broader community, were not included, the Bipartisan Justice Center allowed President Donald Trump to create an illusion that President Donald Trump had support from HBCUs or this community when in fact, just as President Donald Trump's done to communities like this one throughout President Donald Trump entire professional career President Donald Trump does not have the support of communities like this that President Donald Trump actively demeans degrades and disempowers.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We need regulation and reform.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Technology

If you come after Joe Biden, you're going to have to deal with me.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I've said time and time again that this is unacceptable, that if you come after Joe Biden, you're going to have to deal with me in this case. There is no — as you said — these are baseless, unfounded, scurrilous lies, plain and simple, trying to undermine the character of one of the statesmen of our country, not our party, but our country. And so, yeah, you've got a problem with me.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

But if President Donald Trump want to ask me what I believe right now, what he has done is pretty damning.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

He saw the horrors visiting his community, are we going to have to wait until hell's lottery comes to your community ? No, we are a better country.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

You should not be a nominee from our party that can seriously stand in front of urban places and say, 'I will protect you,' if you don't believe in gun licensing.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I'm in this to win it. It's not a vanity play. I'm not sticking around for ego, i don't think you should be in this primary, at least this is my values, my lens, I'm not going to be in this primary unless I have a viable path to victory. We have that right now. But in the fourth quarter we're going to need help and I'm hoping people will help.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We have nearly 35,000 donors who have been helping us make this goal. We've raised $ 1.5 million plus.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't believe people should stay in this just to stay in it, you either have a trajectory to win or not. And right now, we don't raise $ 1.7 million, we won't be able to make the investments necessary.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We're never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

First of all I want to say: no. I want to translate that into Spanish: No.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We are never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action, i have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Look, there are a lot of people watching at home right now, listening to us, that are afraid because they are in crisis.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Learning about how to duck, cover, hide, for fear that there is a mass shooter roaming the hallways of their school.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I hear about it all the time. Booker wants to take away your hamburger, well, that is the kind of lies and fear-mongering that they spread out there,that somehow the Democrats want to get rid of hamburgers.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

We are facing a dual crisis of climate change and economic inequality, without immediate action, we risk an incredible human toll from disasters, health impacts, rising national security threats, and trillions of dollars in economic losses.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This is not a referendum on one guy in one office ; this is a referendum on us and who we are going to be to each other. This is one of those moral moments in our nation that is going to define the moral character of our country.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We are not even being called back in session to get something done as if the clock is not ticking before we have another mass shooting in America.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

These acts of hatred do not happen in a vacuum, they are harvested only once they have been planted.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

There is no neutrality in this fight, you are either an agent of justice or you are contributing to the problem.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We have the power to act, and we can act to legislate safety even if we can not legislate love.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We need to be honest : about not just who we are, but who we have been.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

They are harvested only once they have been planted. ... You reap what you sow.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I know I can not separate the office I seek from who I am.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We may be having a primary debate right now, but we know we are going to close ranks behind the candidate.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters, we need to say that.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This is one of those instances where the house was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws. And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

You cant have it both ways. You invoke President Obama more than anybody in this campaign. You cant do it when its convenient and then dodge it when its not.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

For him not to have a more comprehensive plan to deal with this is unacceptable to me, especially because he is partially responsible for the crisis we have now.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

For a guy who helped to be an architect of mass incarceration.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

He is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gain.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

The Notre Dame game was one of those nights where Paul Nickel get home at night and feel the good kind of tired, i took a deep breath, and I remember saying,' Okay, I've done it.'.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Life gives you these incredible gifts at times disguised as failures or setbacks or knockdowns, these humbling moments that ultimately end up being turning points for you to greater opportunity beyond that which you imagined, and this was yet another football gift to me, to be able to play at high level, Division I competitive football, to sit with a guy who would go on to be... a playoff coach, and have a moment that you think is a devastating end, and it turns out to be an extraordinary, unimaginable beginning.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Talk about a crushing moment.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This gift that football gave me was just preparing me to face the darkness, to face the doubters, to face the naysayers, to face the critics, and to realize that in life you can't let what's outside of you ever chart your course.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm frustrated that it took so long but I am grateful for Joe Biden doing this, we can't have a leader that can't stand up and say.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We can not be a nation that is truly free until everyone is free.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

These are the kind of things that do cause hurt and harm.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We have to recognize that kid wearing the hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

But, you know, we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds in a campaign debate exchange can't do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Right now, the vice president to me is not doing a good job at bringing folks together. In fact, he's caused -- and I've heard this from people all around the country -- he's causing a lot of frustration and even pain with his words.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Its about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

We will treat each person with the respect and dignity that they deserve as humans.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I hear gunshots in my neighborhood, i think I'm the only one, I hope I am the only one that had seven people shot in their neighborhood just last week.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

When the primary is over we become a united force.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We as a nation have not yet truly acknowledged and grappled with racism and white supremacy that has tainted this countrys founding, it continues to persist in those deep racial disparities and inequalities today.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

Vice President Biden's relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people, and for everyone.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

We need to plant lots of seeds in our democracy to create the kind of harvest we need.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Let's make sure, as a birthright in America, every child has a chance of creating wealth, paychecks help us get by, but wealth helps us get ahead.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Barack Obama was polling way behind in this state, Cory Booker all know that, look at the numbers, until The New Jersey senator showed The New Jersey senator could win in Iowa. i think African-Americans are very, very... they guard their vote. They want to beat Donald Trump like we all do, they want to see the viability of the candidate. When we show, in those first two states, our ability to be very successful, I think it's going to help us have, grow even more in the polls.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This is actually a piece of policy that we know changes those outcomes.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Access to safe, affordable housing can be transformative in the trajectory of people's lives, my parents knew this when they moved my brother and me to a New Jersey town with good public schools in the face of racial discrimination. The tenants I represented against slumlords when I first moved to Newark knew it too. So did my neighbors in Brick Towers.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

My parents knew this when they moved my brother and me to a New Jersey town with good public schools in the face of racial discrimination. The tenants I represented against slumlords when I first moved to Newark knew it too. So did my neighbors in Brick Towers.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

11 people dead. My heart breaks for those killed in another senseless act of gun violence the loved ones of the victims whose lives are now shattered, we have the power to stop this- we can will pass commensense gun safety laws to end these tragedies.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

We have one remaining path to ensure justice is served, it is our legal and moral obligation to hold those who have committed crimes accountable.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

We need a president that's going to enforce anti-trust laws in this country, and I will be that person.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

I love Trump is taking credit for a recovery that started under Obama.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I find your choice of words alarming, i think it calls into question your objectivity, when you look at the actual context of the report.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

William Barr answers to the American people — not to President Donald Trump — and over the past 24 hours it's become clear that William Barr lied to us and mishandled the Mueller Report. William Barr needs to step down.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Since 9/11, weve had terrorist attacks in this country. The majority of them have been right-wing extremists and the majority of those have been white supremacist attacks, from a synagogue in Pittsburgh to a church in South Carolina. And these are white supremacist groups that use language as we saw it, as far away as New Zealand use our presidents language almost as if it is a license for these attacks.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Opinion

Critics will tell us that a campaign powered by grace and love and a deep faith in each other can't beat that, but I say it's the only way we win.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We're doing the launch in our home, i don't know if there's ever been a presidential campaign launched from Brick City.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We are here today to say, we can't wait.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

A real progressive movement does not hold progress for communities like mine hostage today for promises that perfection will come tomorrow.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I feel incredible, we set goals for ourselves and we surpassed our own goals, we're seeing incredible energy and enthusiasm everywhere we go in this campaign.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I think this election is not going to be decided by money, we're going to raise the money that we need to run our plan.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Do I support legislation that is race-conscious about balancing the economic scales ? Not only do I support it, but I have legislation that actually does it.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

In many ways I feel that I'm still that guy — trying to deal with a very big, challenging, crowded field, with a very larger-than-life character as president of the United States.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I don't need( Barr) to filter facts. I want to see it. We should see that report and make our decision based upon that, this is what I'm going to commit to you right now.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

This is so much more of a serious conversation, so do I support legislation that is race conscious about balancing the economic scales ? Not only do I support it, but I have legislation that actually does it.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I passed a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill with other senators on both sides of the aisle, the first time since those horrible crime bills back in the 1990s, passed this legislation working across the aisle to move forward.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

She is an incredible girlfriend, i'm very lucky to be in a relationship with someone who is just so incredibly special, but more importantly has taught me so much in a very short period of time.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I understand the sense of urgency to get rid of him.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

This is what I'm going to commit to you right now.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I don't know all the details in the prosecutor's decision. I know that's going to come out.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Its time that we dare to dream again in America. That is what it takes to make America great. It is up to us to do the work that makes the dream real.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

This can't just be about an election, this has to be about a larger campaign for our country. ... I want to win White House back, but White House's not to beat Republicans. White House's to unite Americans.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

I'm gon na get criticized, so I'm going to get ahead of it. Cory Booker're going to say,' Oh gosh, more candidates talking about love and hope, oh my God. How are you going to beat Donald Trump with that ?' there are going to be different theories of how you fight in this election.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

There's nobody in this race tougher than me.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

I think we should be focusing on whats right now happening with the governor, I know you guys are going to try to focus on a lot of things right now, but right now, my focus is on, again, calling for the governor to step down.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Opinion

Please, what have we gotten myself into right now, man! all the issues we've talked about, this is the most uncomfortable part of this interview.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

If Donald Trump can get elected with the personal life that he has? then anybody can.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Together, we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I live in Newark, New Jersey, and the support of the Latino community in the past changed my life and helped me win the mayoral race, because I had Latino support, so my work in my political life has always been in conjunction with the Latino community.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

He is an archetype of so many people that are out there, he is 1,000 % a real person.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Anybody who's faced the massive delays that we see on a regular basis knows this is undermining the quality of life for millions and millions of folks.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

Because South Carolina's not about what we're against in life, South Carolina's about what we're for. And we need to define ourselves more about what our vision for this country is, in all of my elections that I've had, I'm not trying to beat Republicans, I'm trying to unite Americans, because there's not a right or left way to move forward. You move forward by moving forward.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Today, we have righted that wrong and taken corrective action that recognizes this stain on our country's history.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Of course the presidency will be something I consider, it would be irresponsible not to.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I'm going to Ohio, I'm going to Florida, I'll be going to a whole bunch of other states, I'm going up and down Jersey again for( Sen.) Bob Menendez, and that's where 100 % of my focus is. We can talk about 2019 and 2020 after this.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

If he wants to attack me personally, he can, if he wants to attack my record, the reality is that the people of the state of New Jersey who elected me statewide are very proud of the work that I did, the change that we made in Newark, the transformation going on in Sioux City.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Look, I'm angry, I'm hurt. I'm upset about what's going on and how real people in America, working folks are being treated, but the way you counter that is not by embodying the tactics of those people that you don't want to see in office. So, the President might try to divide people, I think we as Iowa Democrats should try to unite people.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

This might be the Midwest, I grew up in the Northeast.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I subscribe to the idea of radical love, you should confront evil and injustice, but do it in the ways that Martin Luther King did it... who always did it by recognizing the dignity of even those who you oppose.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

My priority is here, my priority is Menendez. My priority is flipping Congress seats at home. So we’re spending a lot of time raising money for folks, which is something that’s really needed. Going to lots of events.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Right now, there's a shadow over the independence of the judiciary because a President who has been credibly accused by his former lawyer of being an unindicted co-conspirator has the opportunity to put a judge on the bench, it is understandable for people to suspect that there's something going on. That somehow this is rigged.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an' I am Spartacus' moment.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I understand the penalty comes with potentially ousting me from the Senate, i openly invite and accept the consequences.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from Judiciary Committee, i openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

What I want right now is for us to when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh... to wait until this Mueller probe is done, no American citizen should be able to choose the person who will be judging them when they are subject to a criminal investigation should those matters come before that judge.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I ’m a big believer that if America, if this country has n’t broken your heart, then you do n’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country. There’s a normalcy of injustice that we’ve accepted.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

We are at a time where injustice has grown to become normal in our country, and it is time for us to work together to get folk woke, to help people understand their power, american history is a perpetual screaming testimony to the achievement of the impossible.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I’m a big believer that if America, if this country hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I think a lot about the Democratic Party nationally and how it seems that that connection to people — where they are, what their experiences are, their struggles, their hurts and their pain — how we seem to have lost our way.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

This to me is more of a reason why there's an urgency in either rejecting this nominee or making sure that this nominee, if we go forward, commits to recusing themselves from any of the issues that come before the Supreme Court.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Senate Judiciary Committee should not move forward with Neil Gorsuch confirmation, should not go forward with advising and consenting on this individual until this prosecution, this criminal investigation, is done, and if we do go forward, then every Republican, every Democrat should join together with insisting that Brett Kavanaugh recuse Brett Kavanaugh from any matter regarding this President that should come before the Supreme Court.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I look forward to standing with my colleagues and all Americans in what will be the most important fight of our lifetimes. There'll be no greater.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Sen. Sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requisite of the job to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights and justice for all of our citizens.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm not going to play coy. I'm sure after the midterm elections, I'll give it a look, but to me, my momentum, my energy, my focus is 2018 and making sure I get re-elected in 2020.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I don't think about that in the context of a 2020 run ; I think about it in the context of the career I've chosen. To be a senator, like right now, it's kind of hard to date when you're on the road, as I am right now, where your weekends are spent in three states, look, at a personal level, I really do think about that every day, because I really do think that one of the best titles you can have is a parent and a spouse.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

My party has got to focus on not being anti-Trump. It's not about what you're against in life. It's what you're for, you've got to talk about the vision for the country and for where we're going. It's going to speak to people's hearts and heads, not their partisanship.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I think one of the reasons why we're only one of six United States senators to not say we're not taking corporate contributions is to try to divorce ourselves from anybody's skepticism, as well as, being the change you want to see in the world, i want to be able to make a difference on these issues without people being skeptical, because they're tying contributions -- which have never, never affected the way I decide on issues. ... I think that we were moving in that direction before this whole thing to say' no corporate contributions whatsoever,' which we've done. Again, we are an early mover, and I bet you that we'll see more people follow over time.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Of all the titles that I sincerely seek in my life, more than anything else is... to be a husband, and a father. And I've made tremendous sacrifices.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I just have this strong belief now as I meet rural, white Americans, as I meet rural black Americans, we have so much of the common pain but we're lacking the sense of common purpose.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I want you all to notice something. I'm just closing up on my remarks and I haven't mentioned Donald Trump at all. Why do I say that ? Because it's not about Donald Trump at all, it's about us and our problems and issues, and challenges in this country did not start with Donald Trump at all.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You’re going to be representing this country and their values abroad in nations where gay individuals are under untold persecution, untold violence. Your views do matter.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

If you kick a lion when he’s down, you’d better be careful when he stands up.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I wish he would come clean and say he didn't have to do this [ Hillary Clinton announcement ].

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

This issue is one that is personal to me.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The vile and the viciousness, it doesn’t reflect who we are as a country.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

You have a social media-minded person and I understand this platform.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I’m pretty confident about my party and people I know speaking. I can virtually guarantee that you will see a marked difference. you can be sure mine are going to reflect the people who most inspired me.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

You can be sure mine are going to reflect the people who most inspired me.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I will vote in support of the deal. But the United States must recognize that to make this deal work, we must be more vigilant than ever in fighting Iranian aggression.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Make no mistake, this deal, while falling short of permanently eliminating Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon, succeeds in either delaying it or giving us the credible ability to detect significant cheating on their part and respond accordingly.

– Cory Booker

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

We're one nation under God, indivisible. These are the principles that are important, not only for the flags we fly across our country, but also the work we do.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We have trillions of dollars in infrastructure debt and the accident the NTSB says could have been prevented if we had positive train control.

– Cory Booker

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

There is a lot of good legislation and a lot of good energy, but I'm telling you there is tremendous work to do to get those bills out of committee and onto the floor.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

The reality is what has made this issue have so much more strength in force has really been the courage of Republican leaders around the country to step up and step out.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

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