Arlen Specter Quotes
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You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
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I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.
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I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
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There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!
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Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
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The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
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Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?
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If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
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If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
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Cannibals are devouring senators.
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Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
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It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.
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'Never give in' was my mindset.
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There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.
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I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.
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The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.
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When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
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I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.
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Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
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I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
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My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
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As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
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We have people there who do have substantial wisdom and substantial experience. And if they were confident enough to express their own views, that they wouldn't be bushwhacked by the party for casting a single vote like Bob Bennett was or like I was, they'd be willing to speak up and they'd be willing to speak their consciences and put their ideas on the line. But right now, there is timidity, there is fear that if they do that a single votes gonna cost them their job and they're not willing to make that kind of a sacrifice and they're not enough with the people.
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No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.
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There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.
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Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
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I've been in a lot of elections.
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Arlen Specter
- Born: February 12, 1930
- Died: October 14, 2012
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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