Cory Booker actually said...

"It's crazy that in places like New York and Newark it's almost impossible, it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be able to fire one teacher -- one that universally everybody says is bad."

"We have to stop paying our teachers, in my opinion, as wage workers. They are not, they're professionals. We should pay them to get a job done; we should pay them based upon results."

"This two-pronged approach was adopted by Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, New Jersey."

"I was happy that even disadvantaged people in my community could get involved and know that even their $5 donation was significant."