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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.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Blind Challenged College Committed Democrat Department Development Fiercely Housing Jack Meeting Partisanship Secretary Then Urban

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

~Cory Booker

Topics: Accomplish American American Citizens Citizens Little Pull Together

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

~Cory Booker

Topics: About Child Community Learned Organizing Parents Stories Were

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As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Been Center Community Great History Many Movements Nation Our Review Social Social Movements

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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

Topics: Calling Change Choice Country Individual Must Nation Our Seek

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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

Topics: After Began Better Career Center Conditions Example Fight Housing Justice Law Law School Live Organizing Parents Proud Residents School Streets Try Up Urban Working Yale

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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.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Believed Brick Central Grade Housing Live Man Moved Owned Privately Project Projects Public Residents Towers Ward Were Who

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Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.

~Cory Booker

Topics: America American Expansive Generations Heroic Inclusive Just Made More

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Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Alike Because Constitutional Created Democracy Descended Earth Equal Family Forth Founded Founders Genius Idea Inalienable Looked Nation Oldest Our Prayed Put Rights Same Tree

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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

Topics: America Billionaires Clinton Few Few People Greatness Hillary Hillary Clinton How Knows Living Many Measured Millionaires Must Nation Nominee Our People Poverty Presidential Time Wealth Who Wide

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 27th, 1969

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