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
fighting light battle
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.
reflection world
The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
kindness small-acts today
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
beach sacrifice fighting
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
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Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
imagination limits problem
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
wise positive-thinking humble
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
opportunity talking challenges
I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
dream ambition simple
Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
spiritual transformation spiritual-transformation
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
work smell politics
I still have that new senator smell.
effort want results
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
change definitely easy everybody failed fallen life respected setbacks time
I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.