Kamala Harris

The pressure has changed in magnitude, right?

But the pressure that I feel in terms of my sense of personal responsibility has not changed.

I put a lot of –

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I tend to be a perfectionist even though I am far from perfect.

I mean, even during the 107 days, every night I would stay awake thinking, what more could I have done with that one day?

Oh, that's interesting.

Well, I mean, I don't know if it's changed, but she was fearless.

She was fearless.

She didn't hear, no, it can't be done.

And whether it was the first case that I had, and I was a young prosecutor, and I was going through the files, and it was a Friday evening, and I realized that the person who had been arrested had young children at home, a woman.

And all the courts were shutting down, and I went to the courtroom, and I asked the judge, please take the bench again.

She has young children.

She can't stay in over the weekend.

And the clerk was like, nope, he's gone for the day.

He's leaving for the day, and I would not leave.

And they called the case.

But not hearing no, that has been probably a through line of my life.

I don't rest easy with the idea that something is not possible.

At least I don't rest easy with it without trying to show that it is possible.

And that's probably not changed.