Barbara Mikulski Quotes

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

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

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Not one of the Senators who voted to confirm Clarence Thomas would hire him as their lawyer.

We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

[Nominee for the Supreme Court] will be something designed to very much please conservatives, even as they may get a little nervous on some of what he's talking about in terms of ObamaCare and infrastructure.

When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.

My Democratic colleagues should not forget that President Obama's Supreme Court nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were both given up or down votes by Republicans.

Bill O'Reilly truly was always going to go to Italy when the scandal erupted about his secret settlements with women that accused him of harassment. So he decided to go on the vacation that he already scheduled, and then of course, he never came back.

My husband recalls that I named my attacker as Brett Kavanaugh.

Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work.

I, for one, want to see Mr. Cruz as a Supreme Court appointee.

'Game Change,' the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.

I don't think anyone in this country wants to hear anything about President Trump from below the waist, below the belt.

People are frustrated with all of the drama around the Clinton family and the history of the Clinton family.

Trouble follows the Clintons everywhere.

This whole thing with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas happened during my first year of college. It was a cross-section of race and politics and gender that I feel is still going on today.

It was titled 'Confirmation' very purposefully. I wanted the film to be about that process - about how Judge Thomas and Anita Hill were thrown into a situation that was difficult for anyone to navigate, no matter what the truth was. It's hard to know what the truth is.

I've never backed him. I have never endorsed Roy Moore.

Had [Clarence] Thomas been white, he never would have been nominated. The only reason he’s on the court is because he’s black.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?