Quotes from Cory Booker

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

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

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

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 am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

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

I still have that new senator smell.

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine.

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.

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.

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

Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be.

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

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.