Cory Booker: “Thank you for allowing me to yield the floor for you to ask a question. I see my colleague here from Delaware. I am…”

“Thank you for allowing me to yield the floor for you to ask a question. I see my colleague here from Delaware. I am going to read a few more stories, but I suspect that she, too, has a question because she and I did not just meet when she was sworn in here in January. God bless her. She is my colleague, but she is my sister, and she has inspired me for years. When she heard I was doing this--and I am not sure how much this is done on the Senate floor--my sister came over and prayed with me that I could stand for a long time because she knew what we were trying to do, which was to try to create--with whom we served--John Lewis-type good trouble in this institution, to not do things as normal, and to begin to say that the voices I am reading are of Democrats and Republicans. The voices I am reading are of Democratic and Republican Governors, of Democratic and Republican heads of hospitals, of Democratic and Republican heads of medical associations, of Democratic and Republican constituencies. This is not right or left. This is right or wrong. My colleague--my colleague--I am going to put her on blast, but God bless your friends who remind you of who you are when you forget. She didn't know that I really wanted to give a speech that was speaking to all of America, but she came up here, and when we were praying, she said: I pray that you speak words of love because she and I know love is ferocious. It is the strongest force on the Earth. It is not soft.…”