Kamala Harris Quotes

“Cheaters don't like getting caught.”

“My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.”

“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.”

“You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.”

“So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.”

“When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.”

“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.”

“Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.”

“I mean, I grew up in a community where people took care of each other. I grew up in a community where my mother, my parents, my extended family really wanted for children to be nurtured and challenged and not harmed.”

“If I've had a particularly crazy day, I try to squeeze in a nice hot bath before I go to bed. And I have a hot cup of tea, usually some kind of chamomile.”

“It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.”

“We deserve a president with the knowledge and experience to reassure a nation weary of tweets, lies, and incompetence. And we deserve a president who speaks to the best of who we are and challenges us to live up to our ideals.”

“In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.”

“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.”

“Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.”

“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.”

“That's what justice represents to me - it's about empowerment of the people.”

“I've had the honor of speaking at many commencements.”

“My mother tells the story about how I'm fussing and she's like, 'Baby, what do you want? What do you need?' And I just looked at her and I said, 'Fweedom.'”

“Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.”

“We don't have to let extremists define us.”

“I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.”

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

“Being a leader means that you're going to have to make difficult calls. You have to have the courage to do what's right, even if it's not popular.”

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

“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let's keep fighting for the America we believe in, an America free of injustice. An America that we know we can be unburdened by what has been.”

“I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.”

“My father, Donald, came from Jamaica to study economics. My mother, Shyamala, came from India to study the science of fighting disease.”

“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.”

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

“I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.”

“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.”

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

“One of the most influential people in my life, in addition to my mother, was my grandfather P.V. Gopalan, who actually held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.”

“If I'm cooking, I feel like I'm in control of my life.”

“Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.”

“I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection, right?”

“The American dream belongs to all of us.”

“One of the things that I do to relax at the end of the day is I read recipes.”

“Anti-Semitism is real in this country.”

“Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.”

“I have spent my career as a prosecutor. I've only had one client in my entire life, and that has been the people.”