Kamala Harris Quotes

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Kamala Harris

Profession : Vice President

Birth : October 20, 1964

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Kamala Harris

If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Kamala Harris

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.

Kamala Harris

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

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If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

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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

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

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.

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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.

Kamala Harris

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

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We don't have to let extremists define us.

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

Kamala Harris

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.

Kamala Harris

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.

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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.

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I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

Kamala Harris