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Cory Booker

30 quotes

“Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?”
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“The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that’s prepared, but right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined, and we’ve got to start realizing that we can secure and protect ourselves, but also be responsible in the way that we do that," Booker said. And it’s not unpatriotic to say that we’re spending too much money. In fact, to me, that’s the patriotic thing to say.”
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“We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring.”
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“Immediately I knew that was problematic [being paired on a television show with John Lewis]. Because the show starts with our bios, and it starts with, ‘John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. … He literally bled the southern soil red. And then it goes to me. ‘Cory Booker, riding his Big Wheel in affluent suburbia, falls off and skins his knee: He bled the New Jersey soil red.’ And so you are very aware if you were born after the civil rights movement, if you were born in my generation, that you stand on the shoulders of giants.”
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“We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward.”
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“Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.”
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“We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthright. A united country is an enduring struggle. It takes collective work and individual sacrifice. It is not enough to call on others or wait for a leader to emerge who will exalt our national values. I believe this is the question we face, as citizens of this nation: what will we do to affirm this most critical American virtue?”
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“Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through some accident of history, but they were the conscious creation [of institutional racism].”
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“What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that.”
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“I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together.”
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“When ignorance and bigotry is allied with power, it is a dangerous force.”
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“We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and justice for all, but that’s just words. It’s a civic faith, but I’m one of these people that says before you, "tell me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people." Well, how are we living our civic gospel? How are we living our civic gospel that demands for us to reject the normalcy of injustice, the normalcy of apathy, the normalcy of indifference, and rise to the higher ground of activism, of engagement, of love?”
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“I’m a big believer that if America, if this country hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”
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“I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystanders. You are either complicit in evil, you are either contributing to wrong, or you are fighting against it.”
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“There is great dignity in work – and in America, if you want to provide for your family, you should be able to find a full-time job that pays a fair wage. The federal jobs guarantee is an idea that demands to be taken seriously. Creating an employment guarantee would give all Americans a shot at a day’s work and, by introducing competition into the labor market, raise wages and improve benefits for all workers.”
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“The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. I'm glad he's safe. To those in Congress who don't feel the urgency to pass our Anti-Lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime– I urge you to pay attention.”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 January 2019 regarding Jussie Smollett
Also quoted by: Jussie Smollett
“You encouraging me means more to me than you can imagine (After Jimmy Carter hoped Booker run for president).”
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“The "power of the people" is greater than the "people in power" ... Change does not come from Washington, it comes to Washington.”
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“We are a part of this take-down culture where people are trying to twist your words.”
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“Sometimes you go in the pit before you go to the palace, right? You know? And that was the story of Saint Joseph ... Martin Luther King was slain, they wrote the words from Joseph's brothers when they threw Joseph in the well ... "Behold, here cometh the dreamer. Let us slay him, and see what becomes of his dream". Now, King has fallen but his dream has not died, and we are the keepers of the dream. And so, do not give up hope, do not give up faith, alright?”
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“Working Americans would tell you that the dignity of work is being stripped ... they are working harder than their parents and falling further behind ... while their salaries may moderately have gone up, what has gone up more is the cost of prescription drugs ... child care ... college ...”
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“You are dipping into the Kool-aid and you do not even know the flavor (After Joe Biden criticized Booker's anti-crime work as Newark mayor).”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the 2nd Democratic debate (31 July 2019); Geoff Earle. Cory Booker mocks Joe Biden during angry clash over criminal justice as former VP accuses ex-mayor running RACIST police department. Daily Mail. 2019-08-01 U…
“We cannot let these conversations devolve into the impotent simplicity of "Who is or is not a racist?" Because, if the answer to the question "Do racism and white supremacy exist?" is "yes", then the real question is not "Who is or is not a racist?", but "Who is or is not doing something about it?”
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“... marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people ... the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people.”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the 5th Democratic debate (20 November 2019) Nick Corasaniti, Cory Booker Jokes Biden ‘Might Have Been High’ When He Made Marijuana Comments. The New York Times. 2019-11-20
“I got a chance to witness firsthand what I think many people in America can relate to, is when you show up in a room qualified, when you show up in a room with extraordinary expertise and credentials, there are a lot of Americans who know that hurt, that you are still going to be treated in a way that does not respect to you fully”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During Ketanji Jackson senate confirmation hearings: 'This is not about racism. It's about decency’ (March 27, 2022)
“... many millions of Americans are literally going to be hurt, because when they are sick, they will not be able to afford to go to the doctor. When they go to the Emergency Room, the lines will be 2 times as long. We are in a crisis. We need a president to stand up, and bring us together to help to solve the problems of the American people.”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Just come to the table and do something to help Americans’: Booker to GOP ABC News (October 6, 2025)
“I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
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Recorded in: During his record-breaking speech on US Senate floor as quoted in "Cory Booker Rails Against Trump & 'Disneyfication' Of U.S. History As Epic Floor Speech Nears Senate Record" Deadline News (April 1, 2025)
“I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values. … As soon as I said publicly that I was trying this experiment, so many vegans out there, hundreds and hundreds of people, have been reaching out to me with incredible support and encouragement as well as practical tips of how to do this without having to sacrifice that much in terms of the food and what I like. I've discovered some really delicious things—recipes, stores, and restaurants—that have made this transition far easier. … 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.”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking Tofurky With Newly Vegan Cory Booker", interview with Vlad Chituc, in The Daily Beast (26 November 2014)
“I don’t think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents. I don’t think they realize that … these big companies like and and others have our American farmers now living like in constant debt, forced to follow their rules. I’ve watched the suffering in North Carolina of minority communities who live around and can no longer breathe their air … and I’ve seen workers in the meatpacking plants and how dangerous those plants are. Everybody is losing in this system – except for the massive corporations that have taken over the American food system.”
Cory Booker (born 1969) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'A savagely broken food system': Cory Booker wants radical reform ... now. , September, 15 2020
“Unnecessary hardship is being borne by Americans of all backgrounds; our institutions are being recklessly and unconstitutionally attacked and even shattered. In just 71 days, the President has inflicted harm after harm on Americans' safety; financial stability; the foundations of our democracy; and any sense of common decency. These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent and we all must do more to stand against them. Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?”
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