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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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" 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. "

" I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' "

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

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" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. "

" 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.' "

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