Cory Booker

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population.

Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be.

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.

I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen.

I debated between law school and divinity.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.

I'm worried about privacy issues, I'm worried about Russian attacks. They literally, if you if you look at what their insidious aims are - to divide this country, is to make us hate each other, to make us not to trust media.