Biden in “Confirmation”: “A lot of the criticism for the movie is that it made Chairman Biden appear weak and ineffective — and he was. The Republicans metaphorically stoned Anita Hill, while the Democrats, Biden being the gatekeeper, let it happen … To me, having worked on both sides of the aisle — Republican and Democratic — what I know for sure, Republicans are like bare-fisted street brawlers, Democrats do pillow fights.”

Working with Thomas: “He came to my apartment one night, just showed up. It was really awkward, just talking, but he would always say little stuff like ‘I think I’ll date you.’ We used to do these [EEOC] workshops around the country. … He asked me, ‘what size are your breasts?’ … It wasn’t like I was afraid of him. To me it was just stuff he said and he did. … Consider that he was at the EEOC, the agency that’s charged with fighting discrimination in the workplace.”

“It bothers me that people didn’t get to see all of him because they painted this nice conservative Republican. … If you knew the whole man and some of the other ways he treated people, maybe it wouldn’t be so difficult for you to understand that yes, he’s a sexual harasser, too, because he was no respecter of people on so many other levels.”

“I think maybe I’ve seen one picture of him where he smiles and even then it looks forced. I see an angry bitter man. While many people may think it’s a result of the hearings, that’s the man I always saw him to be.”

What Thomas has said: “He says he fired me because he heard that I called somebody the F-word [faggot] and he wasn’t going to take it. Number one, it never happened. It’s bothersome that nobody on the committee even bothered to probe. If they had probed just a little bit, they probably could have realized he wasn’t telling the truth, just asked him where did that happen and what did you say to her.”