Lawyer Quotes

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

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

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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

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

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and findi

I love music.

I love being in a courtroom.

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.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

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

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

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

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