Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. Kamala Harris More Quotes by Kamala Harris More Quotes From Kamala Harris Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names. Kamala Harris daysacrificelawpeople We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community. Kamala Harris communityperceptionpersonalitywant If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first. Kamala Harris youcrimehealthway Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time. Kamala Harris womanwincolortime A family shares hardships and a connected history. Kamala Harris hardshipsfamilyconnectedhistory To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens. Kamala Harris lookingcrimesmarthappens A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another. Kamala Harris supportfamilyinspirelooks The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals. Kamala Harris goodtruth-istruthcountry You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them. Kamala Harris feelunderstandyoupeople We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8. Kamala Harris positionapologyrightstalking I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible. Kamala Harris ladderlookingstandingchildren So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead. Kamala Harris aheadlookingoverpeople I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible. Kamala Harris jumpyouexperiencefacts
