I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

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.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

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

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.