Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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

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.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

I'm one of the luckiest people on Earth.