(CNN) -- For all her experience and accomplishments, the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could hinge on one sentence she uttered more than seven years ago. Sonia Sotomayor's opponents are attacking a 2001 remark she made at the University of California, Berkeley. The sentence constitutes 32 words of the almost 4,000 she delivered during a speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Read by itself, it seems to imply that Latina women make better judges than white men. "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," she said October 26, 2001.
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White House says 2001 remark being taken out of context
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Sotomayor: She hopes "wise Latina woman" would judge better than white male
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In same speech, she said Latinas making progress "in the old-boy network"
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GOP heavyweights call Sotomayor "racist" in denouncing her nomination
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