Cory Booker

The United States, of course, cannot act alone. Democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere must be united in our values to uphold the rule of law and to champion democratic values.

Without vigilance and accountability, our adversaries will be quick to step in.

So in your opinion, the U.S.

Arguments in favor of wolf conservation tend to focus exclusively on the benefits that wolves provide to humans.

What is astonishing to me is that we just have to acknowledge that we are in the midst of a global extinction crisis on the planet Earth of stunning proportion.

I did a book with my Booker Book Club, sir, which I think you might be a member of, I am not sure.

If the Saudis want to make clear their compliance with international humanitarian laws, among other steps, they should grant approval to the World Food Programme to deliver the cranes to Hodeidah.

I believe those Saudi arguments have today, yet again, been thoroughly and publicly discredited.

Let us not let this dream be deferred in our country any longer.

That will cost taxpayer money. That will not be a pursuit of justice.

What worries me is that my colleague, a man whose character I have never maligned, a man, Jeff Sessions, who served with dignity, ... on this issue he is so wrong.

I have witnessed this country's failure to live up to its promise that is written on the Supreme Court wall that says 'Equal Justice Under Law.'

About 95 percent of the women are victims of sexual assault.

This is one of the great shames in our country, and it is crushing communities like the one in which I live.

We have a system now that is so broken that it has nothing to do with the ideals we hail of liberty and justice.

Overwhelmingly, we imprison the poor. Overwhelmingly, we imprison the mentally ill. Overwhelmingly, we imprison the addicted.

We were building a new prison every 10 days, hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, incentivized by us here in the Federal Government.

We have defined ourselves as the greatest civilization in all of humanity for locking up its own people disproportionately for non-violent drug crimes.

If you are black in America, you are almost four times more likely to be arrested for using marijuana.

Chris Rock says why is it that often the most violent street in many cities is named for the man that stood for non-violence?

Please allow me a moment just to say my prayers are with Elijah Cummings. He is recovering, I know. There is no physical ailment that is tougher than he is, and I look forward to seeing him back in the chair.

Chairman, please know that this is a moment for me that I could not have dreamed of, that Bonnie Watson Coleman and I, when we were just local politicians, never imagined that she and I would be in the Capitol together serving as congress…

I'm just hoping that aspects like the VIPR team bomb-sniffing canines, something that we've had bipartisan support for, are really critical.

Would you also commit to ensuring me that major seaports like the Port Authority--like the Port of New York and New Jersey will have the resources and support to ensure secure movement of freight?

What has been frustrating to me is that some of those recommendations have languished since 2007, like the training for frontline transit and freight employees.