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" Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us. "
Kamala Harris
Dream
Logic
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" I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm one of the luckiest people on earth. "
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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 believe you've got to do your due diligence. "
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" My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.' "
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First
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love being in a courtroom. "
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" We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. "
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" 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. "
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" Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Smart
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" I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison. "
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" My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. "
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" I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision. "
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" 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.' "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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