Quotes from Kamala Harris
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.
— Kamala Harris
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.
— Kamala Harris
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
— Kamala Harris
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
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
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
— 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
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
— Kamala Harris
We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
— Kamala Harris
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
— 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
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.
— Kamala Harris