Quotes from Cory Booker

We've got to get back to a country that can get things done. And my whole career has been marching and charging at and running toward some of the most difficult problems in America and finding ways to create new coalitions to get things done.

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

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.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And 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.

If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

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.

We need to create an economy that works for everyone, not crony capitalism and unchecked corporate consolidation.

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

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

We can affirm our values as a country and have immigration systems that support our economy, that grow our country, and that make sure that we stay secure and strong.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

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

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

Democrats need to define themselves - not what they're against or who they're against, but we have got to define ourselves with what we're for.

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

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.

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.