Kamala Harris Quotes
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.
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I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.