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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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" 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. "

Kamala Harris

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

Kamala Harris

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Looking

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love being in a courtroom. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "