[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1444]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                         ARIEL SHARON'S COMMENT

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                        HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 6, 2001

  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, how dare Ariel Sharon comment about 
Condolezza Rice's legs. I wonder what his legs look like. And let me go 
on to say how ``unsexy'' some people might think he looks. But they 
don't say it out loud! Probably they would be too busy thinking about 
that and unable to keep their mind on their work.
  Why would he say such a thing out loud?
  But does that have anything to do with his effectiveness as an 
Israeli leader? No.
  Neither his legs nor his sexiness has anything to do with whether he 
will stand for peace, make war, or whether he is competent to do the 
job for which he has been chosen.
  Likewise, Dr. Rice's looks have nothing to do with her effectiveness 
as a leader or as National Security Advisor to President Bush.
  The press seems to think this episode is cute.
  But it's an insult for all the women out there who go to school, 
study hard, then work long hours to break the glass ceiling. The last 
thing we need is for some boorish man who can control neither his 
libido nor his tongue to come on publicly to women he finds attractive.
  I think Mr. Sharon owes all women, especially working women, an 
apology.

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