Cory Booker

As a powerful senator, I can put things in the record.

This is such an important issue for the State of New Jersey that I am very grateful to have the opportunity.

I want to form a new caucus already and I have only been here 20 days, and it is the what is going to grow American businesses, what is going to help small businesses.

I had to balance the budget for every year.

We are not here to score political points. I do not care about in the next election. I care about solving the problems.

So if you witness the relief, even the excitement from real companies, who you do not ask them if they are Republican or Democrat, you just ask how can we help the company and you see it which I have seen with my eyes, the relief many…

You know, it reminds me of a great President who once said, it is not the critic counts, it is not the man who points out that the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have done better, it is the person actually in the arena…

We have got to fix this before the next election and I appreciate you showing us the way forward.

one of the key things Government should do is create a climate of predictability when it comes to things like tax credits and research tax credits.

There are actually job openings. There is a lot of job openings, and there is a lot of people looking for jobs in America.

95 percent of all consumers globally are outside of America.

That is why I strongly support Jeh Johnson for the position of Secretary of Homeland Security.

We need to get bigger.

the future of our country's strengths and power will not be determined by our military, but will ultimately be determined by the power of our economy.

We have got to learn to scale this stuff or we are going to fall behind other countries.

I think he will bring a profound sense and sensibility about national security issues to the table.

I think Secretary Pritzker did a good job of highlighting that.

if I were to tell you we were to make a decision to increase that tax credit from 14 percent to, say, 20 percent, that would relate to more research being moved here and expanding jobs.

One of the things we discovered was the incredible importance of our manufacturing base within Newark.

we are falling behind, way behind, the rest of the globe and our competitor nations in producing engineers.

I know how vitally important close coordination between Federal, State, and local agencies are.

So, therefore, there are some programs which you seem to allude to that are Government investments that have a tremendous payoff.

We were not doing enough to help expand American exports.

I may be new to the Senate, but as a former Mayor, I know that there are difficult issues facing our country.

we rank like 27th or 30th in the world in terms of our R&D tax credit. It is embarrassingly low compared to almost everybody else.