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“I have a saying: Disappointment is a function of unreasonable expectations.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“This is how fascism begins,” warned Françoise Giroud, a journalist who served in the French Resistance. “It never says its name. It creeps, it floats. When it reaches the tips of people’s noses, they say: ‘Is this it? You think? Don’t exaggerate!’ And then one day it smacks them in the mouth, and it is too late to get rid of it.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“That’s why I have no patience for anyone saying, I’m giving up on America because America wanted this. We did not. Of the third that voted for Trump, a good part of them voted for him on promises unkept.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“He’s an expert at suggesting that someone is a fraud—that you cannot believe this person. Which I believe some psychologists would call “projection.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“I was born into a fight for freedom and stood in that tradition. Freedom to vote, to control one’s own body, to breathe clean air and drink clean water, to be free from the fear of weapons of war on our city streets and in our children’s classrooms. Freedom from anxiety about health care costs, childcare costs, a retirement spent in poverty. Freedom to afford a home, build wealth, provide our kids a good education. The freedom not just to get by but to get ahead. And the freedom to simply be.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Throughout my career I’ve maintained that people in positions of power must be required to ask of themselves: Who am I not hearing from? Then make it their business to seek those folks out.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. —ALBERTO BRANDOLINI”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“This generation is the destiny of our country and the world.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Jason Carter, eulogizing his grandfather, observed that Jimmy Carter “was the same person, no matter who he was with or where he was. And for me, that’s the definition of integrity.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Two of the trending searches after the election: What is a tariff? Can I change my vote?”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“We are the only country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is guns. Every day in America there are parents who drop their kids off at the bus stop or at the school gate and say a silent prayer that their children will return home that day.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“But it remains true that the vice president’s role will be as little or as much as the sitting president desires. That can be a hard pill to swallow.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president. On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“I'm sorry Ma'am, I don't think you're going to get there. "Oh my God, what's going to happen to our country"....I said. I could barely breathe.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“I did not predict: the capitulation.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“There comes a point when you’ve done all you can do. When your work has been completed… That’s when you just stand. Stand believing and knowing that you’ve done your part. Stand in the strength given to you by God.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Trump had four years to increase the number of border agents”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Trump was their vehicle, his road paved for him, years earlier, by a hot and pungent brew: Ronald Reagan’s celebrity, Newt Gingrich’s belligerent discourse, and Pat Buchanan’s nativism.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Democracy is complicated. It’s also easily compromised by blatant bias, downright lies, and the media organizations that enable them.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Disappointment is a function of unreasonable expectations.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. —ALBERTO BRANDOLINI I got loyalty”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Bridge”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Charli XCX had posted: Kamala is brat. Brat was the title of her latest album and identified me with her brand: edgy”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“In my life I’ve seen over and over that it is often the people with the least who give the most.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Democracy is complicated.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“I made the immediate decision to go on TikTok. The @KamalaHQ TikTok would be a five-person Gen Z team in their twenties. We would give them a few rules of the road and then let them trick it out. Insta would have a Millennial flavor”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Don’t you ever let them make you cry.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“The @KamalaHQ TikTok would be a five-person Gen Z team in their twenties.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“At 5:29 p.m., staff alerted me that the British singer-songwriter Charli XCX had posted: Kamala is brat.”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days
“Gavin Newsom: Hiking. Will call back. (He never did.)”
Kamala Harris, 107 Days

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