“We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring.”

—  Cory Booker

[When Cory’s gone, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2013/08/17/when-corys-gone, The Economist, 21 August 2018, August 17, 2013]
2013

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35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress 1969

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