Cory Booker's file

"Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James’ administration. This year it’s higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Says Cory Booker "supports late-term and partial-birth abortion and opposes safety regulations."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 25th, 2013

"We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas."  

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 11th, 2013

"In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' "

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 8th, 2017

The war on drugs led to "a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities."  

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, July 10th, 2016

"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.'"

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

"You’re more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas" than find in-person voter fraud.

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 31st, 2015