“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, npr.orgTagged: Rules, regulations
“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, npr.orgTagged: justice system, Incarceration
“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, npr.orgTagged: Conscience, senate, criminal justice
“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, npr.orgTagged: Medicare, Democracy
“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, npr.orgTagged: justice system, Incarceration, mental, People of color, Low-Cut
“The founders were imperfect geniuses. They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]. ... If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coali…”— Cory Booker, npr.orgTagged: Founding Fathers, US Constitution, Injustice
“They call the person that was showing me around and said, 'Hey we're a Christian family. We can't have Cory Booker in our home.' Because we have these outrage machines that are making the highest corporate profits they've ever made, because of their telling us to hate each other so much.”— Cory Booker, npr.orgTagged: Christian, Corporate Profit, Outrage Machines