My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

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 could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

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

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.