Cory Booker: “It is a great book. I actually learned--I read my colleague's book, and I learned a lot of data about gun violence from…”

“It is a great book. I actually learned--I read my colleague's book, and I learned a lot of data about gun violence from your book. We were talking about this belief that these words--this belief in our country that these words, why this government was formed is so important. America, this is who we are, these imperfect geniuses. We formed this: We the people, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty. You stood right down there for 15 hours. I paced this room pledging to you I wouldn't go to the bathroom. I wouldn't sit down. And I was hurting after 15 hours, but you were steadfast until we finally got Mitch McConnell to give us something. It was one or two votes. It was two votes. Both of them failed; we didn't get 60. At least what we forced this institution to do was to confront the horrendous horrors of that nightclub shooting. So you ask me now--as you and I and my dear brother whom I have known since he was coming out of college, three of us on this floor at a new day, it is past midnight, a new month, it is past midnight as we sit here--why? Because of your question. I can't stand anymore to live in a country where it seems that these convulsions come that threaten our most vulnerable over and over again. I can't stand it. I have to stand up and speak up. We have to do something different yet again.…”