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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. "
Kamala Harris
Office
Running
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" My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero. "
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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 have a difficult time sitting down for long periods. "
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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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" 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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" What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. "
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" You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them. "
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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 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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" I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made. "
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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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" 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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" Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. "
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" The American dream belongs to all of us. "
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American Dream
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" I love being in a courtroom. "
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Being
" 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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Our
Nothing
" 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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" 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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Talking
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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'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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" 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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