Cory Booker
Cory Booker
Cory Anthony Bookeris an American politician and the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013. Previously he served as mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 April 1969
CountryUnited States of America
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Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
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There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
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As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
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I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.
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When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
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We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.
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Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.
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I think that whatever administration that comes in must take a hard look at that project and make sure it's the best deal for all of our residents.
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I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.
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The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.
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This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.