Kamala Harris

Police should be required to be trained on racial bias and procedural justice.

We must shut down for-profit prisons, which profit from the incarceration of people.

Ending mass incarceration and reforming sentencing are key to fixing the system.

On day one, I will stop any federal funding going to for-profit prisons.

Our criminal justice system has been influenced by the for-profit industry.

People are sitting in jail simply because they can't afford bail.

We need to shut down for-profit prisons in America.

There needs to be accountability for law enforcement, police, and prosecutors.

Teachers on average make 11% less than similarly educated professionals.

On day one, Betsy DeVos is out.

We need a federal background check law that is strong and comprehensive.

This is about the devaluation of human life that happens every day in America, in particular the devaluation of Black men and Black boys.

We need to demilitarize police departments.

We need to deal with the trauma in our communities, particularly in communities of color.

He has been without courage. He has not demonstrated any leadership or conviction to see through what should be obvious.

I have personally hugged more homicide victims' mothers than I care to tell you.

I will lead the effort to legalize marijuana and expunge the records of those convicted of marijuana offenses.

We need both mental health services and smart gun safety laws.

We need to ensure that public policy values families and aims to keep them together.

We need to end mass incarceration, starting with sentencing reform.

Children act out when we fail to address trauma early on.

We need executive action if Congress won't act.

This is serious. This is a very serious matter. We are talking about the fact, as confessed by the president, essentially, with plenty of evidence including a cover-up, and including clear evidence of consciousness of guilt that the…

I have to believe that -- and I do believe -- that the United States Congress, the leaders of the United States Congress, will do everything that is necessary to support and protect the whistleblower.

To everyone, and I say it all the time, the framers of our Constitution, the founders of our nation, they imagined a moment such as this. They imagined a moment where one branch of government would abuse its power.