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"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
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"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court."
Court
"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."
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"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
Education
"But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about."
People
"What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it."
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"One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now."
Being
"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities."
Woman
"Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects."
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"We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice."
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"The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life."
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"I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations."
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"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
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"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
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"I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president."
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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
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"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."
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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
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"A committee is an animal with four back legs."
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
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"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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