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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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'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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love being in a courtroom. "

" 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. "

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