Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,
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It's not easy to get 60 votes on a controversial bill like this, but we're working on it.
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It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.
It just couldn't be done, ... We have to do it right. We can't do it fast.
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It's an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality, ... I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if.'
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There likely will be a national debate about whether the president really has the kind of power he's been using.
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There's a very keen interest in learning more on all sides,
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There's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote,
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There's been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard,
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the next person who heads up the office may not have a close personal relationship with the president.
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The next chief justice will have the potential to change the court's image in the eyes of many as a superlegislature and to bring consensus to the court which has made a hallmark of 5-4 decisions, many of which are inexplicable.
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You think you're right, but there are a lot of people who think you're wrong. What do you have to lose if you're right?