KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Cory Booker Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Cory Booker

Showing 91-100 of 181 Quotes by Cory Booker

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Also Another Away Change Comparatively Definitely Easy Ever Everybody Face Failed Failures Fallen Going Had Life Most One Thing Respected Right Right Away See Setbacks Thing Time

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Also Always Either Governor Joke Latter Life Make My Life Possibility Running Senate Viable

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Cory Booker

Topics: Come Commercial Cry Mother Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Aisle Beat Bill Blood Both Both Sides Colleagues Down Get Go Got Heart Know Like Me Mentor People Reality Recognize Same Sides Strategy Too Type Washington Will Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Black Church Deeply Home Involved Jersey New New Jersey Parents Raised Religious Small Two Very Were Who Young I Was Raised

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American American Away Before Better Better Life Born Chances Circumstances Days Election Father Few Growing Growing Up Had He His Last Life Man Mother Passed Poor Same Single Single Mother South Than Today Up Worry Would Years Young Young Man

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Access Care Health Health Care Intending Justice Juvenile Mental Mental Health Reform Sentencing Treatment Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Concept Flows Highest Ideal Ideals Nation Our Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Afford Aspirations Call Callous Cannot Challenges Country Debate Disagreement Most Much Our Persistent Public Question Sacred Sake Shallow Still Time Too Too Much We Cannot

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: About Advance Advancing Adversary Against Become Becomes Calling Cause Common Debate Distracted Focused Labors Larger Less More Nation Opponents Our Perceived Points Productive Scoring Them

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 27th, 1969

Links

Find Cory Booker on Amazon

Related Authors

Hillary Clinton
Benjamin Franklin
Barry Goldwater
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert Kennedy
Mitt Romney

Popular Authors

Saint Augustine Lewis Carroll John Dewey Ruth Bader Ginsburg Nelson Mandela Ayn Rand Rumi Jean-Paul Sartre

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1930 - Dolores Huerta

1755 - Samuel Hahnemann

1778 - William Hazlitt

1827 - Lew Wallace

1829 - William Booth

1835 - Henry Villard

1847 - Joseph Pulitzer

1867 - George William Russell

1882 - Frances Perkins

1887 - Bernardo Houssay

Birthdays on April 10th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Change Forgiveness Good Medical Motivational Nature Valentine's Day