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

Independent Woman

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 love being in a courtroom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "