If you come after Joe Biden, you're going to have to deal with me. Cory Booker More Quotes by Cory Booker More Quotes From Cory Booker Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness. Cory Booker small-acts kindness inspirational Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore. Cory Booker greatness helping-others beautiful What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge? Cory Booker given challenges impossible Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever. Cory Booker helping-others expectations giving 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 work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. Cory Booker hard-work color jobs Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.' Cory Booker voice real graduation 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. Cory Booker home war country Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give. Cory Booker show-me teach giving Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart. Cory Booker live-life soul heart Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about. Cory Booker testimony who-you-are life-is 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. Cory Booker weakness civilization looks The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you. Cory Booker reflection world The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home. Cory Booker oakland home country When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. Cory Booker citizens together littles We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. Cory Booker strong together class Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you. Cory Booker courage heart motivational I want you to understand that racial justice is not about justice for those who are black or brown; racial justice is about American justice. Justice for LGBT Americans is not about gay and lesbian justice; it's about American justice. Equality for women isn't about women; it's about United States equality. You cannot enjoy justice anywhere in this country until we make sure there is justice everywhere in this country. Cory Booker gay justice country I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters. Cory Booker equal-rights equal giving I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if there was any drug that was driving violence, more than marijuana, it was alcohol which is legal. And so I just don't think this is a gateway drug. And by the way, if you regulate it you're actually going to overcome a lot of problems with people having to go to the streets to buy their drug. You don't know how dangerous that is. Cory Booker marijuana believe thinking The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield Cory Booker marie worry
