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
expressed number points quite rounds
We all have our points of view, and they were expressed pretty forcefully in quite a number of the rounds of questions,
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There could be a real tough battle here and a real tough fight, depending on whom the president puts up,
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this was my case. I had organized, nurtured and developed it. I was the lead plaintiff and had participated in the legal preparation and court arguments at every stage.
there has been no impropriety on your part.
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There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.
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Why not go after both levels? ... Why not get tough? That's what Sen. Feinstein wants to do, and I think it's a good idea.
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Thoroughness would be the objective, as opposed to meeting any timetable,
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The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.
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People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.
people
I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
people
The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
politics totally
My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
playing
I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.