Words matter. These are the best Kamala Harris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.
People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.
What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers’ contact book. Most consumers don’t want that to happen and don’t know it’s happening.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.
I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.
As a young prosecutor right out of law school at the Alameda County DA’s office that Earl Warren once led, I started my work.
I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.
Racism is real in this country.
The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.
So many people trip in front of them because they’re looking over there or up ahead.
If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.
DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.
We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.
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.
It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‘hit the bottom’ so the market could – I quote – ‘run its course.’
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’
I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.
Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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.
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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.
My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.
Anti-Semitism is real in this country.
I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.
As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.
California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Who of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, ‘Well, I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this?’ Let’s eliminate all of that.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
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.
I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.
Hate crime is not new in the United States.
Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let’s give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.
I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.
Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
Homophobia is real in this country.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.
I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
A family shares hardships and a connected history.
The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.
If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.