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 has been my experience that the hearings are a subtle minuet with nominees answering as many questions as they think they have to in order to be confirmed.
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I suggest it may be very helpful to U.S. efforts to secure Venezuela's cooperation in our joint attack on drug interdiction if the rhetoric would be reduced,
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I read in the morning papers that we are under a lot of pressure. You may have missed the papers, but you won't miss the pressure.
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Before I can evaluate the adequacy of these changes, I have to know a lot more about the specifics of the problem. It doesn't do a lot of good to move names around on organization charts if there aren't substantive changes. What's going to happen to the next Phoenix memo? Where's it going to end up?
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His approach of modesty, of stability, and away from judicial activism, I think, is a model. Whether it is carried out, remains to be seen.
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But I think that it is important to elevate the public consciousness as to what is going on. The four hearings we have had and the way the matter is drifting, in my view, is insufficient to safeguard civil liberties.
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But I think he did answer many, many important questions, such as he solidly affirmed the right to privacy
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But I don't believe in a quota system, and it may be that at this particular time, President Bush would like to have someone other than a woman, and I don't think his hands ought to be tied.
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The lack of carbon monoxide discloses only that there was no fire long enough to have gotten into the respiratory systems of the people who were so tested, ... It doesn't say anything else.
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ill-suited to capture the nuance of oral arguments and the sustained attention of the American citizenry.
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I'll have greater confidence in your telling me I'm wrong when you have all the facts,
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I have raised a certain cautionary signal, that I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination,
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I have no reason to catalogue him as an ideologue.
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I'm not sure that $1.6 trillion is precisely the right figure. Perhaps it is, if more of that was devoted to the lower income groups.