Jan. 24, 2019 - Sen. Cory
Booker (D-NJ), who served as mayor of Newark, NJ from 2006-13, is seen
as an all-but-certain presidential candidate.
Speaking of his time as mayor, Booker said, "What I learned very
quickly is that so much of government often does things that are
stupid." "In other words, we would much rather invest on the back
end of a
problem, than make the smart investments early on that would prevent
the problems from getting acute in the first place," he said. "We
live
in a nation where there is common pain but we've lost our sense of
common purpose," Booker told the mayors. He said, "We are in the
pit right now and we need leaders like you who lead with
love, and love is not seeing the child as they are; it's seeing the
child as
he could be, as he should be, as he will be if we invest in that
child." transcript |