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. – Kamala Harris After U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which cleared way for gay marriages to resume in California.
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. – Kamala Harris
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
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
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
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
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. – 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
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. – Kamala Harris
What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology. – Kamala Harris
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them. – Kamala Harris
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. – Kamala Harris
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
