"As a member of the Senate Intelligence..." - Quote by 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.
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“There is a lot of work to be done to make sure our leaders reflect the people they are supposed to represent. The more diverse a group of decision makers is, the more informed the decision will be. Until we achieve full representation, we all should understand we are falling short of the ideals of our country.”
“I'm not good at talking about myself.”
“Culture is - it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment.”
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“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.”
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“There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.”
“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.”
“What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.”