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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love being in a courtroom. "

" 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. "

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

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "