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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There's no doubt that there are many people on both sides who want to fight. That's their principal objective: Gear up the troops, go out and raise money and justify your existence as a special-interest group.
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Basically, Americans do not understand the gravity of the oversights on what appears to be the case with both the FBI and the CIA,
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You have both sides poles apart and insistent on finding some answer to that question in advance of the hearing, which no one is entitled to, ... Late Edition.
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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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There is a possibility of a third vacancy with Justice Stevens, that has been rumored, ... He is 85, but in good health. But if that comes in the next year -- with three new justices -- a shift in the court. And that's a problem for both the right and the left.
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It continues to be my hope that both leaders would liberate their caucuses from party-line voting,
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I do hope that when we in the Congress, both in this body -- when responsibilities come to the Senate -- and the other body, in the House of Representatives, there will be an approach which is bipartisan and nonpartisan in nature,
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I've not said that the vice president has done anything wrong, ... What I have said is there is a basis for (an) independent counsel.
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It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she's prepared to do it if she is asked, ... By next June we'll know a lot more about Judge Roberts ... than we do today.
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It would take us less time to handle this trial than to handle the talk shows,
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These decisions pose two major problems, ... A lack of stability or predictability in the law because the two cases, decided three years apart, are virtually indistinguishable; and, two, the court's judicial activism in functioning as a super legislature.
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The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,
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The Senate has not asked for anything falling under executive privilege,
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The Senate and the Judiciary Committee can accomplish more in three cooperative hours than in three days or three weeks of disharmonious activity.