Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world. And we need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.
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Anita Hill
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank