Quotes from Cory Booker

I have not settled down with a life partner.

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

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

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.

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.

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

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.

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.

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

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.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

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

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

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

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

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.

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

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.

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.