Kamala Harris famous quotes

03-28-2025

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
-- Kamala Harris

#Children #Believe #I Believe
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Hurt #Class #Enforcement
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Children #Night #Phones
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Dna #People #Guilty
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
-- Kamala Harris

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Levels
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
-- Kamala Harris

#California #Justice #Age
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
-- Kamala Harris

#Dream #American Dream #Cynical
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Mother #Children #Kitchen
The American dream belongs to all of us.
-- Kamala Harris

#Dream #American Dream
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Believe #Moving #Climate
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
-- Kamala Harris

#Independent #Independent Women #Victim
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Book #Smartphones #Data
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

#Meaningful #Thinking #Justice
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Daughter #Mother #Opportunity
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.
-- Kamala Harris

#Mother #May #Lasts
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
-- Kamala Harris

#Running #Blessing #Office
I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
-- Kamala Harris

#People #Earth
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
-- Kamala Harris

#Thinking #Pieces #Bob
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
-- Kamala Harris

#Believe #Criminals #Serious
I love being in a courtroom.
-- Kamala Harris

#Love Is #Courtroom
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
-- Kamala Harris

#Long #Sitting Down #Difficult Times
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
-- Kamala Harris

#Safety #Want #Framed
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
-- Kamala Harris

#Smart #Mean #Punishment
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
-- Kamala Harris

#Justice #Criminals #Tough
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
-- Kamala Harris

#Mother #Hero
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Mother #Home #Opportunity
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.
-- Kamala Harris

#Smart #Thinking #Mind
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.
-- Kamala Harris

#Country #Believe #California

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