Kamala Harris Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.’

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

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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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• So many people trip in front of them because they’re looking over there or up ahead.

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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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• 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’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’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

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• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

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Kamala Harris (39)

Birth:	20th October, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Attorney, Politician, Author, Lawyer

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