Kamala Harris

"So I was raised as a middle class kid. And I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America. I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people. And that is why I imagine and have actually planned to build what I call an opportunity economy."

"My opponent on the other hand, his plan, is to do what he has done before. Which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion to America's deficit."

"What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan would make the economy worse. Mine would strengthen the economy."

"My plan is to give a $50,000 tax deduction to start up small businesses, knowing they are part of the backbone of America's economy."

"I have a plan to give startup businesses $50,000 tax deduction. To pursue their ambitions, their innovation, their ideas, their hard work. I have a plan $6,000 for young families for the first year of your child's life to help you in that most critical stage of your child's development. I have a plan that is about allowing people to be able to pursue what has been fleeting in terms of the American dream by offering a help with down payment of $25,000 or down payment assistance for first-time home buyers."

"And I say, look, when we all want a system that says that in any negotiation, the outcome would be fair. All reasonable people should want that in any negotiation, the outcome would be fair."

"He said he was the only one who could bring back America's manufacturing jobs. Then American auto manufacturers announced the closure of six auto plants when he was president."

"He cut taxes for corporations that shipped 200,000 American jobs overseas during his presidency."

"So I say all this to say to the friends that America, as we all know, is ready to chart a new way forward. That is optimistic about what we can achieve when we are working together."

"Donald Trump's answer to the financial pressures you face are the same as they were last time. Another trillion dollars in tax cuts for billionaires in the biggest corporations."

"Our top priority as a nation four years ago was to end the pandemic and rescue the economy. Now, our biggest challenge is to lower costs, cost that we're rising even before the pandemic, and they're still too high."

"I have met so many young people who have a natural desire to parent their children well, but not always the resources to do it. I'll work to lower the cost of childcare, which is out of reach for too many working families today."

"And for too many people in the sandwich generation, who are raising young children and taking care of a parent, juggling all of it is extremely difficult."

"Our top priority as a nation four years ago was to end the pandemic and rescue the economy."