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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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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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 extremists took over the primary process.
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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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I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.
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We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
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There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
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when the last senator stops talking - and that's always hard to predict.
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We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
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We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
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Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?
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We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,
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When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.
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We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.