Kamala Harris

Politician

1964-10-20

American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. She previously served in the U.S. Senate and as attorney general of California. She is the first woman and first person of Black and South Asian heritage to serve as U.S. vice president.

Quotes by Kamala Harris

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.
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Unlike other people, unlike others, I have never represented a corporation. I have never represented a special interest. I started my career fighting for the people.
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My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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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.
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I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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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.
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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.
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I've fought against transnational gangs. I took on the biggest banks and helped take down one of the biggest for-profit colleges. I know a predator when I see one.
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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.
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I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.
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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.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.
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