Harris: "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."

Harris: "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."

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

Harris: "We've got to keep our eye on what's happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change."

Harris: "I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period."

Harris: "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."

Harris: "The American dream belongs to all of us."

Harris: "What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening."

Harris: "I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices."

Harris: "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."

Harris: "You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them."

Harris: "I'm not good at talking about myself."

Harris: "I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone's life."

Harris: "If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short."

Harris: "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."

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

Harris: "I just think it's so important not to take yourself too seriously."

Harris: "Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime."