Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Kamala Harris
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American president Kamala Harris.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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 born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
I just think it's so important not to take yourself too seriously.
Racism is real in this country.
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
The American dream belongs to all of us.
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they've ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.
Sexism is real in this country.
So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
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.
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.
A family shares hardships and a connected history.
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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.
It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.
I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
We've got to keep our eye on what's happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.
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.
I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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 need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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.
California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.
We don't have to let extremists define us.
I'm not good at talking about myself.
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.
Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.
If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.
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 believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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.
My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.
I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone's life.
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.
I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.
Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.
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.
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
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.
Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
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