Kamala Harris

We’ve got a president of the United States who is so obsessed with what is in his personal best interest … to the pain and the demise of the people who he is in office to represent. So, we need a new president. There is no question about that.

"RS Intervie Special Edition’ With Sen. Kamala Harris, Jamil Smith", Rolling Stone, (23 April 2020), 2020

I would suggest that we not pretend that we don’t know how this nominee views a women’s right to choose to make our own healthcare decisions.

Quoted in "Amy Coney Barrett dodges abortion, healthcare and election law questions", by Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, (13 October 2020), 2020

My mother, she raised my sister Maya and me, and she was tough, our mother was all of 5 feet tall, but if you ever met her, you would've thought she was 10 feet tall.

Quoted in "Kamala Harris, Biden's Running Mate, Spent Career Breaking Barriers", by Gregory Krieg and Jasmine Wright, CNN, (11 August 2020), 2020

There is not a black man I know, be he a relative, a friend, or a co-worker, who has not been the subject of some kind of profiling or discrimination.

February 19, 2020 according to a video (~2:13), CNN, (January 17, 2021), 2020

When young children see someone who looks like them running for office, they see themselves and what they can be, unburdened by what has been.

Twitter 2020; as quoted by Singh, Rishika "Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy". The Indian Express. (2024-07-07)., 2020

My mother was very intentional about raising my sister, Maya, and me as strong, Black women. She coupled her teachings of civic duty and fearlessness with actions, which included taking us on Thursday nights to Rainbow Sign, a Black cultural center near our home.

Instagram, (9 February 2020), 2020

Who of us has not had that situation, where you've got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well, 'I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this,' Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on.

National Public Radio (NPR) Several Democrats Eyeing A Presidential Run Embrace 'Medicare-For-All', (30 January 2019), 2019

They [people in El Paso] said, 'Do you think Trump is responsible for what happened?' And I said, 'Well, look. Obviously he didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition.

Said in a Democratic TV Debate "7 key quotes from the Democratic debate in Houston", ABC News, (12 September 2019), 2019

No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.

Twitter, (29 January 2019); regarding Jussie Smollett, before it became clear he had staged a fake hate crime., 2019

At an HBCU, a young person is shown that they can be anything. You step out of the minority and you become the majority. Everything tells you exactly what Aretha (Franklin) told us: You are young, gifted and Black. You can come as you are and leave as you aspire to be. (June 2009)

19 June 2019 in a presidential campaign video, 2019

I’m running to fight for Medicare for All, universal pre-K, debt-free college & more. To guarantee middle-class families a pay increase of up to $500/mo with the largest working-class tax cut in decades — paid for by reversing this Admin’s gifts to big corporations & the top 1%.

Twitter, (27 January 2019), 2019

I'll repeat the question. [...] Can you think of any laws that give the government power to make decisions about the male body.

To Brett Kavanaugh (September 5, 2018) during his confirmation hearing as a Supreme Court Justice, as cited in "Kamala Harris goes viral grilling Kavanaugh on laws restricting the male body", SFGate (September 6, 2018), 2018

ICE raids across the country have torn mothers apart from their children. The raids lack transparency, spread fear, and harm public safety. Breaking up families and separating kids from their parents is wrong. We can keep America safe without being callous. We must do better.

Kamala Harris, Facebook, (February 15, 2017), 2017

As unacceptable as this problem is -- I know we can fix it. In San Francisco, we threatened the parents of truants with prosecution, and truancy dropped 32 percent. So, we are putting parents on notice.

From her first speech after becoming San Francisco's attorney general in 2010, as cited in "Kamala Harris, Biden's Running Mate, Spent Career Breaking Barriers", by Gregory Krieg and Jasmine Wright, CNN, (11 August 2020), 2010

I look forward to working with the many, many talented attorneys in the district attorney's office

"Harris Defeats Hallinan After Bitter Campaign", SFGate, (10 December 2003), 2003