Kamala Harris
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.Collection: Education
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Home
A family shares hardships and a connected history.Collection: History
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.Collection: Politics
The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.Collection: Truth
People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.Collection: Family
California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators - in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors - got their start here.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They're working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.Collection: Work
I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.Collection: Business
As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.Collection: Intelligence
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Experience
I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Health
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.Collection: History
If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.Collection: Women
A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.Collection: Family
Racism is real in this country.
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.
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
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.
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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.
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.
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.
The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.
I've had the honor of speaking at many commencements.
We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.
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.
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.
Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?' Let's eliminate all of that.
I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.
I'm not good at talking about myself.
If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.
In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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.