Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from California, and I so agree. This is one of my biggest fears about this moment. Let me talk about why that is true. I was a mom at home in 1991. I was a State senator but not interested in what was happening here at all. My interest came because I watched the Clarence Thomas-Hill hearings, and I watched how a woman shared a very difficult story with an all-male panel of the Judiciary Committee at the time. She was disbelieved. She was swept aside. She was treated as if her voice wasn't important, and she was not believed. I was so angry as a woman because like so many women in this country, I knew of so many people with experiences much like hers who, too, at work at that time had been dismissed, not believed, and were afraid to speak up. I was angry, and I went to a gathering that night and told some of my friends in 1991, the night of the hearing, I am going to have to run for the U.S. Senate because I need to be inside that to speak up for these women. That is what motivated me to run. I was not given one chance of winning that Senate race. Here I am today, 27 years later. Why? Because so many women and men who understood shared that experience and knew that voice needed to be here. That is what brought me to the U.S. Senate. Let me talk about Dr. Ford because I listened to her, like everyone else did, and I heard her voice and it rang so true to me.…”