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Cory Booker

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912 total appearances

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

who couldn't imagine these things happening in their country and expected more from me and more from the Democratic Party. And we decided after I had a disagreement with my leader, Chuck Schumer, over the continuing resolution and what tactic we should take, what larger strategy we should pursue,

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

who couldn't imagine these things happening in their country and expected more from me and more from the Democratic Party. And we decided after I had a disagreement with my leader, Chuck Schumer, over the continuing resolution and what tactic we should take, what larger strategy we should pursue,

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

I decided that I had to shift my own way of working now when I felt like my constituents were demanding from me that I take risks that I think outside of the box. And we are hearing letters that literally would render my staff into tears.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

I decided that I had to shift my own way of working now when I felt like my constituents were demanding from me that I take risks that I think outside of the box. And we are hearing letters that literally would render my staff into tears.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

I decided that I had to shift my own way of working now when I felt like my constituents were demanding from me that I take risks that I think outside of the box. And we are hearing letters that literally would render my staff into tears.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

We had people coming to our office, not even from our state because they saw this as an outpost, to tell us that they were going to lose their farm because Donald Trump had cut contracts. Stories that just were wrenching the guts of my staff. And they said that we've got to find a way to make those stories break through.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

We had people coming to our office, not even from our state because they saw this as an outpost, to tell us that they were going to lose their farm because Donald Trump had cut contracts. Stories that just were wrenching the guts of my staff. And they said that we've got to find a way to make those stories break through.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

We had people coming to our office, not even from our state because they saw this as an outpost, to tell us that they were going to lose their farm because Donald Trump had cut contracts. Stories that just were wrenching the guts of my staff. And they said that we've got to find a way to make those stories break through.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.