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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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"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
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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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"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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"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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"A committee is an animal with four back legs."
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"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."
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"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
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"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
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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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"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
Education
"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."
Change
"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."
Sex
"Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting."
Experience
"The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life."
Experience
"I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community."
Woman
"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
Committee
"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."
History
"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."
Conscience
"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
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