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
Cory Booker quotes about
happened period
I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.
latter life running viable
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.
african born chances days few growing last life man passed poor single worry
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
dad model
My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
advance ball blocks bunch country founded founding joined move since
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.
against avarice calls common cuts economy fairness federal highest ideals ills platform protect pull
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
barack expand hope president promise truth
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.
came city connection family found people reminded
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.
determination inability
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
love-is small-acts battle
In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
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.'
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.
challenges impossible given
What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?
focus choices limits
The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.