Top 280 Quotes & Sayings by Cory Booker - Page 3

We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.

People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

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.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

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.

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

I have not settled down with a life partner.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

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.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

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

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.

The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make.

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

We're a nation of hope, of high ideals.

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

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

I believe there's tremendous value in having a Supreme Court with a diverse set of experiences - especially when we're dealing with issues that range from our intimate relationships to how we finance campaigns.

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

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.

We must be agents of love.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

I love mayors.

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

I believe that living life with a definiteness of purpose, with having a central focus, is essential to success.

I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

I have got the job of my dreams.

Do not forget from whence you've come.

Newark faces real challenges.