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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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" I love being in a courtroom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision. "

" 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. "