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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. "

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "