Top 60 Kamala Harris Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.”

— Kamala Harris

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2. “The American dream belongs to all of us.”

— Kamala Harris

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3. “Our unity is our strength, and our diversity is our power. We reject the myth of “us” vs. “them.” We are in this together.”

— Kamala Harris

4. “I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.”

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5. “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.”

— Kamala Harris

6. “Everyone’s perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.”

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7. “My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.”

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8. “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.”

— Kamala Harris

9. “I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.”

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10. “When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.”

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

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12. “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.”

— Kamala Harris

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13. “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.”

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

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15. “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.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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.”

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19. “With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.”

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20. “I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.”

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21. “What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.”

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22. “I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That’s it. Every morning, I don’t care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It’s not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you’ve got good vegetables.”

— Kamala Harris

23. “I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.”

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24. “I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.”

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25. “I believe in that old adage that ’as goes California, so goes the country.”

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26. “In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.”

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

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28. “I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.”

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29. “I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.”

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

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31. “These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.”

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32. “I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.”

— Kamala Harris

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

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34. “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.”

— Kamala Harris

35. “Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

— Kamala Harris

36. “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.”

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37. “Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.”

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

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39. “I love being in a courtroom.”

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40. “In the years to come, what matters most is that we see ourselves in one another’s struggles. p 120.”

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41. “When you break through a glass ceiling, you’re going to get cut, and it’s going to hurt.”

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42. “A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does. It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes.”

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

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44. “For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. Fear of the other is woven into the fabric of our American culture, and unscrupulous people in power have exploited that fear in pursuit of political advantage.”

— Kamala Harris

45. “It is often the mastery of the seemingly unimportant details, the careful execution of the tedious tasks, and the dedicated work done outside of the public eye that make the changes we seek possible.”

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46. “What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters. You’re going to walk into many rooms in your life and career where you may be the only one who looks like you or who has had the experiences you’ve had. But you remember that when you are in those rooms, you are not alone. We are all in that room with you applauding you on. Cheering your voice. And just so proud of you. So you use that voice and be strong.”

— Kamala Harris

47. “The criminal justice system punishes people for their poverty.”

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48. “When you show people the math, you give them the tools to decide whether they agree with the solution. And even if they don’t agree with everything, they may find that they agree with you most of the way – a kind of policy-making “partial credit” that can form the basis for constructive collaboration.”

— Kamala Harris

49. “We have to act with fierce urgency. Justice demands it.”

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50. “I’ve learned, through history and experience, that not all progress is gradual or linear. Sometimes it simply goes from one plateau to another. Sometimes we fall back tragically. Sometimes we leap forward and achieve things beyond the realm of what we thought possible. I believe that our job is to provide the force propulsion that will get us to a higher plane.”

— Kamala Harris