Cory Booker

I think an action plan that might be more ambitious for us to consider would be really helpful

The need for behavior to change and the need for some of our societal norms to change

This is a crisis of global proportions, and we're acting as if the little teeny bit that we're doing is somehow going to stop our grandchildren from experiencing a world where there is more plastic.

The amount of plastics being poured into our oceans--the amount of plastics, period, has increased 20-fold in the last 50 years.

The reality is despite all of these really good efforts, we are barreling toward a crisis of global proportions.

I'm really grateful. This is an important hearing. It's an issue I've been pushing and pounding away on since I introduced a bill in the last Congress.

I've learned the hard way from inner city Newark, New Jersey, that hope does not exist in the abstract.

We have a common pain, and we must join in a common purpose.

We are in a crisis in this country. It is affecting the next generation, affecting our economic competitiveness, and affecting the greatest natural treasure we have, which is not oil or gas, but the genius of our kids.

Most people do not understand the crisis we have in the United States of America when it comes to the quality of our drinking water.

I think he said that Mississippi could learn a lot from New Jersey.

I think that the project could be a model for the country and greatly contribute to how we keep our networks moving and running during times of crisis.

I'm proud of my state that New Jersey is using the FirstNet spectrum for sort of exciting safety broadband projects.

I'd like to just question for the record how much rhythm, indeed, the Senator from Massachusetts has?

I cannot overstate the value of broadband access for these learning centers.

E-rate is a program worth fighting for.

I wish that we had the authority to do it. It's a problem.

When you hear that women have to make incredibly difficult decisions whether they buy tampons or call their kids at home because of the usury rates with which these charges they face just trying to communicate with their children.

This program is critical to closing the digital divide.

I patently disagree with you about the authority of the FCC, the urgency of the problem, and the harm that that failure to defend has caused.

So do you know that in social science data, that women who are able and in power to communicate with their children, that it benefits society in multiple ways, lowers recidivism rates, lowers the rates of those children themselves being…

It will be the first time in almost 4 decades that you have a formal structural abandonment of democracy in exchange for a Cuban-style dictatorship.

The reputational damage of those who bail out Venezuela is going to be extraordinary.

What the overwhelming majority of people in Venezuela are asking for is simply a return to constitutional order.

This is a very serious situation that could lead to all sorts of destabilizing effects in the region.