Cory Booker

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

“Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.”

“Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.”

“Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.”

“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.”

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

“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 ethnic...”

“Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American...”

“Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.”

“Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.”

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

“I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.”

“You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allow...”

“In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problem...”

“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.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to wor...”

“We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime...”

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

“I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the st...”

“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 re...”