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If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Change Great Great Nation Nation Ourselves Want

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We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

~Cory Booker

Topics: American Bedrock Choose Class Economic Empowered Forward Growing Ideal Inclusion Middle Middle Class Might Muscle Standing Strong Together

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I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

~Cory Booker

Topics: British Build Call Defeat Did Genome Get High Highways Human Ideals Individualism Map Moon Nation Our Patriotism Respect Rugged Self-Reliance To The Moon Together Us Value

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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

Topics: Achieve Achieving Crime Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Evidence Expense Favor Find Freedom Great Justice Know Liberty Nation Never Number Our Population Prison Reduction Specific System Taxpayer Think Way Would I Think

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Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Born Certain Codes Development Economic Economic Development Educational End Explode Got Kids Likely Most Outcomes Will Zip

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Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

~Cory Booker

Topics: American Best Bullies Degrade Fight Others Our Seek Stand Stand Up Those Up Who

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If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Collective Good Invest Ourselves Thrive

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The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Children Coal Country Gas Genius Greatest Natural Oil Our Resource

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The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Addiction America Been Casualties Direct Disease Health Mental Mental Health Minorities Often People Poor Primarily Terms Unfortunately Vulnerable War Where

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The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

~Cory Booker

Topics: America American Back Confront Diverse Experiment Forget Great Great American Norway Number Our Persist Race Racial Real Realities Richness Soon Start Still Sweden Trying Turn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 27th, 1969

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