Cory Booker

I celebrate you all. I thank you all for, many of you, very long careers of service and putting yourself forth again to step into often difficult situations.

There is a crisis in Sri Lanka right now. The president fled and resigned amongst a really full-scale economic crisis and protests.

I think this is a long-term rebuilding process.

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that I get this privilege to introduce somebody that I have known for some years now.

Economic opportunity is really the foundation of security very often.

Her wide-ranging business background, her commitment to effecting meaningful, substantive, thorough social change is just awesome.

It has diminished the independence of governing institutions meant to provide the necessary checks and balances.

You will always be my president, sir.

Your service has been extraordinary.

Since Viktor Orban's rise to power over a decade ago, the Hungarian Government has rolled back a lot of democratic norms.

I am worried about Hungary's increasing nationalism and the backsliding and, frankly, their cozy relationship with Russia.

I hope you see me and I imagine a lot of other members of that codel as allies in this.

Orban's government has rescinded legal recognition of transgender people and passed a law banning the use of materials seen as promoting homosexuality.

Mr. President, I cannot tell you how great----

in reserving the right to object, I think the points that the Senator from Kentucky is making are worthy. We are facing a reality right now wherein there are lots of threats that are increasing against public officials all around our…

I literally turned to my staff and asked: Has Senator Paul's staff reached out to us at all? That is not the case. Then, to characterize us as the opposition, we are not in opposition to this bill. We are trying to protect Federal judges…

The choice couldn’t be clearer. Do we move forward together, or, do we let politicians, like Rand Paul, forever hold us back, and drive us apart.

the pain of our past persists to this day. In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom. It was used to kill my ancestors.

As Frederick Douglass said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.' If there's no struggle, there is no progress. We have got to begin to hold our congressional leaders more accountable for change.

There are so many issues, from police reform to common sense gun safety, that the majority of us agree on it, but that's not enough. There has got to be more activism and engagement or we're going to lose our precious democracy.

Well, whatever we can get done. If it saves a life, it's worth doing. And so, my colleagues who are entering the bipartisan talks, I fully support that, but I'm under no illusion that we're going to do the things that need to be done, that…

I rise not expecting to give a speech today, but I want to, first and foremost, recognize the Chair, who is my ``mother'' Senator, and I want to thank her for her incredible service to this institution. I want to thank, which I rarely do…

the instruction by my colleague from Wisconsin directs conferees to reject bipartisan House language that addresses a serious public health concern related to mink farming. Mink farms in Europe and the United States have spawned five…

Studies... have shown that the greatest deterrent to recidivism is jobs.

It is really to reduce barriers for justice-involved entrepreneurs.