Quotes by Cory Booker

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

Cory Booker

I debated between law school and divinity.

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

Cory Booker

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

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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.

Cory Booker

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Cory Booker

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

Cory Booker

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

Cory Booker

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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I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, bea...

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Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

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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 comm...

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I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

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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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We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameCory Booker
  • Description35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
  • AliasesCory A. Booker; Cory Anthony Booker; Cory A Booker; Corey Booker
  • BornApril 27, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer