Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harrisis an American attorney, politician and member of the Democratic Party, who has been the 32nd and current Attorney General of California since 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth20 October 1964
CityOakland, CA
CountryUnited States of America
front people
So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
active berkeley both graduate met parents students
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
constantly crime looking position preventing reacting smart
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
blood campaigns contact francisco maybe politics run san sports
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
school two jail
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.
perspective exposure limitation
Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.
choices policy rejects
My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.
abuse needs online
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.
believe moving pace
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
children bones prosecutor
I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?
dream american-dream
The American dream belongs to all of us.
justice criminals tough
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
smart mean punishment
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
needs hook want
In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.