Cory Booker Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Cory Booker:

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

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

Cory Booker

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

Cory Booker

Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.

Cory Booker

I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

Cory Booker

I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'

Cory Booker

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.

Cory Booker

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Cory Booker

I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Cory Booker

The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

Cory Booker

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Cory Booker

Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

Cory Booker

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

Cory Booker

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Cory Booker

My parents were obsessed with my education.

Cory Booker

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.

Cory Booker

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

Cory Booker

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.

Cory Booker

We must be agents of love.

Cory Booker

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

Cory Booker

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

Cory Booker

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Cory Booker

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

Cory Booker

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

Cory Booker

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

Cory Booker

I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.

Cory Booker

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.

Cory Booker

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

Cory Booker

It takes too much energy to hate.

Cory Booker

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Cory Booker

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

Cory Booker

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

Cory Booker

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

Cory Booker

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.

Cory Booker

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

Cory Booker

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.

Cory Booker

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Cory Booker