Cory Booker: “I first met Andy Kim when he was a college student and I was interviewing him for a Rhodes Scholarship. I will tell you…”

“I first met Andy Kim when he was a college student and I was interviewing him for a Rhodes Scholarship. I will tell you right now, when Andy Kim walked in that room, he blew away every one of the interviewers. I like to brag around New Jersey now that while now hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have voted for Andy Kim, I was perhaps the first person to do so. What I saw in a young college student decades ago has only blossomed so much more as he has gone from a young man to a U.S. Senator. We throw around the word 'patriotism' a lot, and it is often used in a way to brandish pride or, at its worst, as a way to condemn others. But the truth of patriotism was in the language we heard today; it is in the language of love, the fact that you cannot love your country unless you love your fellow country men and women. I am excited that New Jersey has a Senator of unassailable brilliance, but what makes him special is not simply his extraordinary head but the profound depths of his heart.”