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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. The first African-American U.S.

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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.

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).

Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.

We are a part of this take-down culture where people are trying to twist your words.

When ignorance and bigotry is allied with power, it is a dangerous force.

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.

Record breaking 25-hour address in US Senate (2025)

What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that.

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].

We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward.

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?

The "power of the people" is greater than the "people in power" ... Change does not come from Washington, it comes to Washington.

... marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people ... the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people.

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.

You encouraging me means more to me than you can imagine (After Jimmy Carter hoped Booker run for president).

We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cory Booker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.