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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Independent Woman

" The American dream belongs to all of us. "

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

" 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 love being in a courtroom. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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