153 Quotes by Kamala Harris

One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.

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.

But when you can’t sleep at night, how can you dream?

Local officials don’t have the ability to make national policy. They have no authority beyond their jurisdiction. But when they land on good ideas, even on a small scale, they can create examples that others can replicate.

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.

You have to sweat the small stuff, because sometimes it turns out the small stuff is actually the big stuff.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

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.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That’s called feeding your body.