Kamala Harris
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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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.
I also have started to sit better with the idea that, but you can't change everyone.
I'm better able to assess a situation to figure out what is the potential there.
And be perhaps a bit more realistic without being, I think, jaded about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it comes with, I think, a bit of experience.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.