Feel Quotes

I debated between law school and divinity.

Cory Booker

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It takes too much energy to hate.

Cory Booker

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I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.

Cory Booker

Tags: Food About Very

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

Cory Booker

Tags: Who Come Mother

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

Cory Booker

Tags: Just Things After

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

Cory Booker

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Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.

Cory Booker

Tags: Our Free Economic

When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too.

Cory Booker

Tags: You People Know

Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court.

Cory Booker

Tags: People Really Important

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

Cory Booker

Tags: Change Our Must

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

Cory Booker

Tags: Attitude More Our

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

Cory Booker

Tags: God You Me

My father was not going to let me sit back and just consume my blessings. He wanted me to contribute, and to do that, you have to be mission-oriented.

Cory Booker

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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Cory Booker

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We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

Cory Booker

Tags: History Up Make

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

Cory Booker

Tags: Best History Who

This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.

Cory Booker

Tags: Truth Hope Will

When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.

Cory Booker

Tags: Government More Our

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

Tags: Who Were Man

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

Tags: Home Who Very

Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

Cory Booker

Tags: Women Patriotism You

Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.

Cory Booker

Tags: People About Out

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.

Cory Booker

Tags: Women Men Who

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

Tags: Great Freedom Think

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

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