As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise of our country—and, a deep understanding of the parts of that promise that still remain unfulfilled.
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It's very clear that the U.S. is adrift.
I think that it's been difficult, even confusing, to figure out what our foreign policy is because Democrats became so absorbed in opposing whatever the Republicans were doing.
Americans, as a general rule, tend to elect whoever appears to be the opposite of the president they've just had.
I think we will all be better off when we are in a world where we can no longer say that people are being held back by their race.
I believe that China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship and that their fundamental economic and political model is a major challenge to the US.
I think the moment we're in right now calls for something new.
We're talking about foreign interference in American politics. And by the way, this isn't hypothetical. This isn't theoretical. We were attacked by a hostile foreign power that decided that they could damage America, destabilize America, by intervening in the election to help him win. And they did a…
I talk a lot, for example, about freedom. I think freedom is something that, across my lifetime, has been talked about as though it were a conservative value. But it's an American value, and I don't think that you enjoy freedom if you're afraid to start a new business because leaving your old job me…
I also come from the industrial Midwest, the exact part of the country where Democrats had trouble getting our message through in recent years, which is part of how we got the president that we have now. And I'm someone who's committed to taking on the flaws in our systems at a very basic level. Our…
I wanna just, you know, spend some time with me and then figure out what I want from someone else.
You look like a Russian basketball coach.
I don't care about politics. I care about my nation.
This president is yet another sad chapter, but what we have done all the time as Americans, black and white, from different backgrounds, we've always joined together and beaten those demagogues hate—hate mongers and fear mongers and I think that's where Donald Trump will be relegated.
Why do we need to universally condemn entire sectors of our society, as opposed to talking about what's happening within them that is in violation of values and creating regulations and rules that make sure that they are affirming what's in the best interest of our country?
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
This is a system that just grinds people into it who are the most vulnerable. You know, you can judge a lot by a country by who they incarcerate.
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues. And we can build from there. In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice r…
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
People who preach racism and bigotry for their own political power try to slice and divide this country against itself.
We were one vote shy from bringing down Medicare eligibility to 55. One vote shy. I'm going to fight for that one vote when I'm running in 2020, because what would that have done?
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
There are some countries that incarcerate political opposition, some countries that incarcerate the media ... but if you look at our prisons and jails we incarcerate overwhelmingly the addicted, mentally ill, low-income, low-income, low-income folks ... and then disproportionately people of color.
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?