Forward to answering your questions. I want to jump right in on the theme of my campaign, but more importantly, the theme of my life. I think that the most important theme of this country. Our founders were not perfect geniuses and they enshrined in our founding documents a lot of bigotry and hate and in the decoration of embedded they called native americans savages and women as secondclass citizens but that was not the defining character of the country that has endured in the spirit they brought to humanity. They broke with the course of human events and said we would be the first nation and oldest constitutional democracy that would not be founded because we all look alike or pray like or are descended from the same branch of the family tree but they said we would be the First Society to put values and virtues on the highest aspirational ideals of human kind. It has been a tough experiment breaking with monarchies and theocracies to create the democracy we have right now but these geniuses got one thing right, they knew the only way we would ever make it in the only way this country would survive as if we made an unusual commitment to one another that we would be a people that understood that the lines that divide us are nowhere near as strong as the ties that bind us in the spiritual cords of our nature is what will help this nation and to her. The ending of that declaration of independence is this profound declaration of interdependence. They literally say after putting forth these whole ideas on his great empire they say if we will make it as a country and these are the words we must mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Turn on the cable news and ask yourself about that sacred hon honor. Look at our own lives on what we say about social media about other americans ask yourself. The call of my life raised by parents who taught me this ideal was that you are here to bring people together for common cause, common purpose, common good. When we are divided, we are weak. Your parents raised you. My mom now has a saying that behind every successful child is an astonished parent. [laughter] like this guy that were not make up his fed is running for president . I cannot get him to mow the lawn and like mom, please. I forged so many of my deals on the gridiron. I was a Football Player and i cant thank you enough for talking about me at stanford but i got into stanford because of a 4. 0 and 1600, fourpoint 0 yar 0 yards, 6100 receiving yards but i was an allamerican Football Player and i had this moment in the huddle when were driving on and i would turn to my fellow members in the huddle and i would tell them the moment i knew we would score it was the moment i heard the other huddle arguing amongst themselves and blaming each other and tearing each other down because i knew there was weakness that we would exploit. When we, as a nation, have more indivisible in this one nation under god theres nothing we cant do. Hell, when the russians put up sputnik we did not go back and say wow but we said we will pull this nation together and show that our way of life that freedom and justice and inclusion that we can bring together people of diversity and we will go farther and higher than ever humanity imagines. We are competitors in the best teams are the ones that get rid of Unnecessary Division and boards together and that is the story of some of our toughest times in america. The guardians of our democracy have never been free of hatred and bigotry and discrimination in fear mongering but it always had those themes in mccarthyism and there was a Political Party that rose up to National Prominence uses a lot of the same rhetoric we see in her today, anti immigration rhetoric and they would hold a know nothing and they were against irish and german immigrants. How did we beat those and how to be up with them . By being like them or taking on their tactics enters . By saying were okay we have a zerosum game on against them we did it because the activism in the call to a higher aspiratio aspirations. We did not bring bigger dogs or bigger fire hoses but the activism is a call to say you may be black and i may be white and you may be christian and i may be jewish but we have a common cause and thats a threat to justice anywhere. My earliest experiences in life for this. My parents told me my origin story just incredible but no different than yours. Fifty years ago my family moved to this mecca trying to move to this glorious place called new jersey. [laughter] i know you all have a problem and youre the second best new state in america. New jersey, new mexico and so every time they came up to the northern suburb of new jersey looking for homes with the black family and they were greeted by Real Estate Agent and say im sorry but this house is already sold for recently pulled off the market. They were like two because the real estate during practice was going on in my parents are frustrated and they were distressed and what did they find amidst this bigotry and discrimination . They found us. They found america. They found a group of people that met in the living room mostly white folks who said we will help you because in this country patriotism we got to weekly network. Its not a word that says im patriotic and youre not but patriotism is love of country and you cannot love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and country women. Love is not a sentiment or sentimentality but love and sacrifice and service the same if your kids dont have a Great Public School if you dont have healthcare my children known what patriots formed this operation where they sent my parents to look for homes and sent a white couple rightparenthesis them my parents are told the house was sold the volunteer white couple would buy the house for sale and then the house i grew up in my parents were told it was sold but the white couple put a bid on the house for my parents and the bid was accepted and papers were drawn up and on the day of the closing the white couple did not show up. My father did and a volunteer lawyer named Marty Freedman and they marched into the Real Estate Agents office and this should be the end of the story but its not because Real Estate Agent was so upset he been caught in this conspiracy of love that he gets up and punches my dads lawyer in the face and six a dog on my dad. Let me tell you, as i grew up in this beautiful town every time my dad would tell the story the dog would get bigger. [laughter] eventually my dad said i had to buy a pack of walls to win the south and every one of us here drinks deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that we did not dig. Everyone of us this year descendents of immigrants amongst every one of us here latinos, blacks, all of us come from that humble story and we are all here because people who cannot even imagine us for this day and age were willing to fight and sacrifice to put their life on the line for the ideals of america that we would be a people to put more indivisible in this one nation under god that we would affirm the ties that bind us a stronger than any lines that divide us. Im running for president because of that all the policy issues we debate on that stage and on the big ideas are possible till we understand that we need each other. God, my parents were corporate citizens and worked for ibm. Father was the first bike i hired the sales for ibm in washington my mom was in hr and they knew the data and diverse teams are better teams. They knew the data. Discrimination is expensive when you dont let lgbt key people in the workplace you lose out on their talent and skill. Poverty is expensive and whats more expensive to society . Mentally ill Homeless People in the street are putting them in a seattle housing. They ran the numbers and seattle study looked at 22 people and found out its far more responsive to have them on the street because end up in jails in hospital Emergency Rooms to do the right thing. Im the only person in senate that lives in a black and Brown Committee blow the poverty line. I want to be in the trenches of the struggle for america and thats where i stayed. The colossal failures that come about when we have a bit to see of empathy. We do not see our fellow americans with the love and we dont have a more courageous apathy. Across for me as a drug treatment center. These you guys that walk over and bring food sometimes they get mad at me because its vegan food. [laughter] i see the horrible story of this country that we decided to treat Mental Illness with prison. We decided to treat addiction with present. Weve decided to treat poverty with present weve decided to arrest everything and for the people who know like i know that china competitors build 18000 miles of highspeed rail of the busiest rail quarter in north america goes from boston to dc, no exaggeration, and runs a half an hour slower than it did in the 1960s. But if we done with our collective treasure . We were building a new is an ordeal every ten days from the time i was in law school to the time i was mayor of the city of newark. The waste all around us. Our competitors not only believe in science but their policy reflects it. Our competitors watch us establish the best info structure in the planet earth and its crumbled now blowing past us in common investments in the software we did with education with the best educators on planet earth and out were not even the top ted and the most valuable Natural Resource on the planet earth of Global Knowledge base society not oil, gas or coal but the genius of a child and they said we will cultivate the genius better than you guys and they started investing in children where Brain Development happens the most, 80 happens in the womb until the fourth year. While america does nothing all those countries have universal prenatal care. We dont. We leave the planet earth and infant mentality, low birth weight and i can say show you the analysis is so much more expensive and cheaper to give every low income women in this Country Access to care that it is to be the cost of low birth weight babies with crises of birth but they go further to the Data Analysis i love data. Im a former mayor. I was running my city used to say i was tired of people coming in with a motion but i used to say if god we trust everyone else bring me data. Our competitors love data in the best and universal preschool but we dont i can show you a dollar invested in universal priest care that produces economic returns for that country. Other countries pay family leave in afghanistan and the congo have paid family leave. We put millions of women every day in distress because they have to decide to be home with a sick traumatized child or go to work to get the paycheck. Listen, i love america. Patriotism to me is what we need. Not posturing and partisanship and not a greater divide that we need each other. This election will be about a lot of things but if we dont have the next president not be a greater or do filer but the next president must be a healer and a uniter and must pull for the common cause of her country and democrats i saw you in here, we make a mistake in this election if we define ourselves by what were against or who we are against and not what we are for and who we are for. We make the mistake in the selection. [applause] if we make a mistake in this election if we demonize republicans and say our goal is to beat the republic and party. Dear god, we should stand up and say our mission is to unite america and ideal and in moving this country forward because our competitors are playing from our playbook and they are outplaying us. I got to the United States senate with a high sense of regard and i decided to write a book. If your name is parker its a lot of pressure, people. The expectations are so high for crying out loud. Its like if ted cruz decided to buy a car it would have to cruise well and my name is booker. I decided to go back and find those people to help my family move in. The patriots who are white and some black folks were republican and democrat and i went back and found the head of that organization and her name is lee porter, 92 years old. She was easy to find because at 92 years old shes still head of that organization in new jersey. Fair housing council. She does not represent black people anymore lots of people but same sex couples and muslim families and americans with disabilities because there is no race orientation but just one love, one justice, one nation under god and she confirmed the stories that it was not a pack of wolves people. [laughter] and she sent me to the lawyer who organized everything and he confirms the story and all the facts and i got a great chapter but finally i suddenly said why and he said he was a young man back in the 60s just started his business and so busy barely supporting his family and i asked him why it would help back limeys and spend so much time doing it. Why would you help black families and he said i know the moment i made the decision it was march 7, 1965 and i said thats the specific. What were you doing . He was saying i was sitting on the couch watching tv this is back in the days when we only had three channels. I know its scary to think about those days but most of america was watching but he was watching a movie called judgment at nuremberg. Some of you now know this day and watching tv and something happens. Breaking news. They broke away from an ongoing to show a bridge in alabama called the [inaudible] bridge and he watches in selma trying to get to montgomery and they get stopped on the bridge by Alabama State troopers who would not let them pass. He watches in horror as they are gassed teargas and then they charge into them and beat them over their heads. A white guy on the couch 1000 miles away, what does he do . Does he do and fall into that trap that sometimes we allow our inability to do everything to undermine our determination to do something but he gets up in the name of patriotism and in the name of love and says injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so he said i will do something and go to alabama and then he can afford a ticket so he stresses for little while and says the best calculation i could afford one hour, one hour a week of pro bono work but i will do the best they can with what i have, where i am and he calls around and find this young woman named lee porter, now 92 years old and they start working on a theme. They got people to volunteer and now theyve got more people involved more volunteers with lawyers volunteering and it turns into 66 than in the 69 and he said i remember the day i get a case filed to me in 1969 of the Family Moving up from the south and looking for help and in distress and the names on the case file and the family, corey, the name of the course for case file your parents. I am here right now before you running for the highest office in the land and i am here right now the United States senator only the fourth ever elected in our country and im here because a white guy on the couch in a time of moral trial in our nation did not just sit there and do not care that my skin was a different color into not care i have different geography and did not even know i would one day exist but he stood up for the ideal of america and why am i running for president because there in peril and our dreams are in trouble in the first generation of americans to have a lower Life Expectancy than our parents but the first generation baby boomers 90 is better economically than their parents did for millennial and country that led humanity education innovation, infrastructure is now fallen behind our competitors and some of them are totalitarian governments and im running for president because i want our dream to live. If you go where Martin Luther king was playing the hero i heard about growing up his pictures were on walls my parents told me he was not a great black american or a gay christian american but he was a red, white and blue dreamer of this country and where he was slain at the motel, its a museum now but i was shocked when i saw was on the ground. It gave me chills. But they wrote there is not a tribute to king but they used that sacred space is a challenge to everyone of us with breath in our lungs and broad in our veins and its a challenge and i leave you with that now. They use words from scripture but it has nothing to do with religion but about our civic gospel, the words they wrote the words from josephs brothers in the words they ordered before they grabbed joseph and threw him into a pit with his coat of many colors to kill him but for those of you who know your torah or koran or bible know he did not die in the pit but rose up and lead a nation through crisis called egypt and america we are in a pit right now and we are in a pit when we sing the song there were at the home of the brave but our veterans come home and are disproportionately homeless. We are in a pit right now the most powerful nation of the land tells our children we cant protect you so we will send you to school and teach you how to hide. More shelter in place drills done in america than fire drills. We are in a pit right now where we hate each other just because vote differently. What was the message . The great uniter who called to the conscience of our country what did they write their the words of josephs brothers sibley this, they wrote behold here, with the dreamer, let us slay him and see what becomes of the dream. What will become of our dream. Will it become diluted or diminished . Will it become divided against itself or will we stand up and say not on my watch and the dream will not perish in the pit because i too will dream of america a new in my generation and they will be bold dreams and defiance dreams and i will back them up with work and sweat and sacrifice and love. If we do that in this moment we can get up off the couch and give more and fight more for each other, not against each other than the dream of america will not die and will not perish, i promise you. The selection will be about one guy in one office but about reclaiming the dream and if we do that watch out, america. Watch out, the world. We will rise. [applause] [applause] welcome to the corey booker rally. I want to thank everyone here. It wil