Quotes from Kamala Harris

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

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

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

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.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.