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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Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress' competence, ... method of reasoning.
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I think if we're to re-establish (the Congress') constitutional role, to control the purse strings, we've got to say that when it comes to local control versus a Washington straitjacket, the people of the United States want the education decisions made in the local school districts, not in the White House.
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White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn't happen very often.
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If we give up the power of the purse, which is what is at issue here, then it really reduces the Congress to the state of being a eunuch,
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Senator Reid is entitled to his opinion, but he's not the president of the United States, and he doesn't administer justice in this country,
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The president of the United States has the fundamental responsibility to protect the country. The president does not have a blank check.
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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
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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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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
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Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.
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This has been a pattern which goes back many years . . . Of all the issues of concern that the United States has with the People's Republic of China, that is the most significant,
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Terrorism remains the No. 1 problem in the United States today. It is not a matter of attaching blame, it is a matter of correcting any errors so that we don't have a repetition of 9/11. If there is intelligence available, it ought to be shared.