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

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

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

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.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

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

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

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.

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

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

What can laws do without morals?

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

From the time I started playing, I've always been the high-energy, never-stop-moving guy.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.