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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. "

Kamala Harris

Change

Think

Justice

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love being in a courtroom. "

" 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 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. "

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

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

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

" 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. "

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

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Kamala Harris

Because

Said

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "