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
bridges growth railroads
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
strong class together
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.
together citizens littles
When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.
reflection world
The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
civilization looks unions
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.
heart creativity hands
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.
hurt judging may
May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
challenges impossible given
What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?
helping-others giving expectations
Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
choices life-is where-you-are
Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
beautiful helping-others greatness
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
giving teach show-me
Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
jobs hard-work color
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.
graduation real voice
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.'