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I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.