Quotes from 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.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

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.

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 need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

I love being in a courtroom.