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Kamala Harris Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“To be sure we've won and we've lost, but we've never stopped fighting.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Winning, Losing, Fighting
“We were raised in a community where we were taught to see a world, beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Community, Compassion, Struggle
“When we have leaders who lie and bully and attack a free press and undermine our democratic institutions, that's not our America.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: leaders, lying, bullying, Free Press, America
“We should make it easier to get care, not harder. Health care is a right, not a privilege for just the healthy and the wealthy.”
— Kamala Harris
Tagged: Health Care, Health
“When we lift up the women of our country, we lift up the children of our country. We lift up the families of our country. And the whole of society benefits.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Women, Children, families, Society
“You see, in our system of justice, we believe that a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. That’s why when we file a case, it’s not filed in the name of the victim.  It reads, 'The People.’”
— Kamala Harris, Transcript: Kamala Harris kicks off presidential campaign in Oakland
Tagged: justice system, The People
“I am who I am. I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
— Kamala Harris, ‘I am who I am’: Kamala Harris, daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, defines herself simply as ‘American’
Tagged: Identity
“Fighting for the people meant fighting on behalf of survivors of sexual assault—a fight not just against predators but a fight against silence and stigma.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Survivors, Sexual Assault, #metoo, Predators, Stigma
“I'll tell you, sitting across the table from the big banks, I witnessed the arrogance of power. Wealthy bankers accusing innocent homeowners of fault, as if Wall Street's mess was of the people's making.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Wall Street, Bankers, Arrogance
“People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Us v. Them, villain, American Story
“We have foreign powers infecting the White House like malware.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Foreign Powers, Collusion, White House, Malware
“My whole life, I’ve only had one client: the people.”
— Kamala Harris, Transcript: Kamala Harris kicks off presidential campaign in Oakland
Tagged: The People, Lawyer, Client
“The United States of America is not about us versus them.”
— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris officially launches 2020 presidential campaign
Tagged: United States, Us v. Them
“My whole life, I've only had one client: the people.”
— Kamala Harris, The 21 most revealing lines in Kamala Harris' 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Populism
“I am so proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California. And as most of you know, I was born just up the road at Kaiser Hospital. And it was just a few miles away my parents first met as graduate students at UC Berkeley where they were active in the civil rights movement.”
— Kamala Harris, Transcript: Kamala Harris kicks off presidential campaign in Oakland
Tagged: Oakland, UC Berkeley, Civil Rights Movement
“That’s how Joe Biden thinks about the economy which is, it’s about investing in the people of our country. As opposed to passing a tax bill, which had the benefit of letting American corporations go off-shore to do their business.”
— Kamala Harris, As opposed to passing a tax bill, which had the benefit of letting American corporations go off-shore to do their business
“'I have decided I'm gonna become a prosecutor.' (LAUGHTER) You're laughing, because you have a sense of who my family is. For example, my sister went on to head the ACLU. So my family at least at best found my decision a bit curious, and with some of them I had to defend the decision like one would a thesis.”
— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris & Mike Pence 2020 Vice Presidential Debate Transcript- Rev
“We are here because the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question. Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let's answer that question to the world and each other right here and right now. America: we are better than this.”
— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris officially launches 2020 presidential campaign
Tagged: American Dream, Democracy
“When American families are barely living paycheck to paycheck, what is this administration's response? Their response is to try to take away healthcare from millions of families. Their response is to give away a trillion dollars to the biggest corporations in this country. And their response is to blame immigrants as the source of all our problems.”
— Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris officially launches 2020 presidential campaign
Tagged: Corporate Cronyism, Corporations, Immigrants, Healthcare
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