So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.

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

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.

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

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

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 finding it.