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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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" 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. "

Kamala Harris

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Politics

I Am

" 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. "

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 mother was and will always remain my greatest hero. "

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

Kamala Harris

People

Looking

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" 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.' "

Kamala Harris

Because

Said

" Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us. "

" My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people. "

" I'm one of the luckiest people on earth. "

" I believe you've got to do your due diligence. "

" We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. "

" Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime. "

" 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. "

" I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything. "

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

" I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work. "

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