Kamala Harris

“As a young prosecutor right out of law school at the Alameda County DA's office that Earl Warren once led, I started my work.”

“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.”

“As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise of our country - and, a deep understanding of the parts of that promise that still remain unfulfilled.”

“When I was the Attorney General of California, running the second largest Department of Justice only to the United States Department of Justice, it meant taking on the biggest banks in the United States, who had engaged in predatory lending practices, and bringing back to the homeowners of my state $20 billion.”

“I can imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

“Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right?”

“We must demonstrate to the American people that in our system of justice all are equal under law, and that there are not two sets of rules, one for Donald Trump and another for everybody else.”

“My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.”

“I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.”

“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.”

“My mother... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.”

“It's time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.”

“I just think it's so important not to take yourself too seriously.”