Cory Booker: “First of all, I am going to come out to the aisle because this is ``doing the Sherrod,'' when you get far away from your…”

“First of all, I am going to come out to the aisle because this is ``doing the Sherrod,'' when you get far away from your desk. I literally think, if the leash were long enough, he would have opened the door and taken a couple steps out and come running in and down the aisle. (Laughter.) I stand today with a similar start because there was this moment in the cloakroom when I was a new guy in the Senate, and I talked about Tester saying to me very loudly in the cloakroom: I didn't think I was going to like you when I first got here. Then Sherrod chimed in right away--and you will remember this, Sherrod--and said: I didn't think I would like you either. Now, I didn't care about Jon Tester because I don't like Jon Tester. (Laughter.) But I really cared that Sherrod Brown would say that, at one point, he didn't like me. But I knew he liked me when he said it, because when I came to the Senate, he surprised me. He did something I never expected. I had great experiences when I first came here--friendships, colleagues stepping up--I see my chairman here--putting me under their arm, but Sherrod did it in a way that really surprised me. He said: Hey, Cory. I want to work with you on something really important. And I thought of all of these big issues in the Senate. Is it Social Security? Is it lowering prescription drug prices? I thought: What are we going to do for America? Sherrod Brown blew me away.…”