Cory Booker: “I think my colleague's point has been seen in history, before he and I were even born. We had a President put forth a…”

“I think my colleague's point has been seen in history, before he and I were even born. We had a President put forth a noble ambition to make the Moon not a dream but a destination. What he did was he set in motion, by charting a course for America to be first, to lead the globe to be the innovators and to go beyond human imagination. It actually affected everyone, all the way down to our schools and our classrooms and what kids were studying. Generations came up with that, and not only did we win the space race, but it fueled new technologies, new innovations for our generation. Think about this. This company in Silicon Valley, I think it was called Keyhole, looked at the satellite information borne out of the space race. That company was bought by another company called Google, and that turned into Google Maps, something my colleague and I probably both have on our phones. So it is amazing when America has this attitude that we are not going to put our heads in the sand and deny a new world is upon us; we are going to lead the country. That has multipliers of collateral benefits that are not anticipated. As mayor, I became not a convert, because I knew this was an issue, but I became a zealot about this idea that you could create a multiplier effect of benefits when you talk and innovate around making the American Dream a green dream. Let me share this with my colleague.…”