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Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 12, 2019 an interview on ABC This Week
"When Connecticut did licensing, their shootings dropped, their murders dropped 40%. Suicides dropped 15%."
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By Amy Sherman • May 20, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 a cable TV news interview.
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on January 8, 2017 an interview on 'Face the Nation'
"In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' "
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By Linda Qiu • January 8, 2017
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 10, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
The war on drugs led to "a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2016
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on June 16, 2016 an interview on MSNBC
"Al-Qaida operatives, have said, 'Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.'"
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 23, 2016
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 a post on Instagram
"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."
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By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 23, 2012 a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
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By Bill Wichert • December 27, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 9, 2012 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "froze all those monies during the toughest years in ‘08-’09" and "refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract."
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By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on October 13, 2011 a radio interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”
Says "if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times."
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By Erin O'Neill • October 24, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 24, 2011 a round table discussion on Meet the Press
Says more than eight countries lead the United States in the percentage of college graduates.  
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By Bill Wichert • August 3, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 6, 2011 an interview on NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime
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By Erin O'Neill • July 14, 2011