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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He might wait until the following Monday, but seeing how President Bush operates, I think it will be sooner rather than later.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sen. Kennedy just propounded a very, very long question. Now let him (Roberts) answer the question.
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Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
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Wait a minute, Senator Biden. He's not finished his answer.
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I know this issue will be responded to when you complete your questionnaire, ... But I think it is not advisable to wait until that time, which would allow columnists, radio/TV talk shows and your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.
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I don't like to put it on an appropriations bill, but we waited long enough, ... fall-back position which I have avoided up 'til now.
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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, ... recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
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The president was noncommittal. The body language was not very positive.
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The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- his own personal problems.
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When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,
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We've got the potential for enormous advances in medical science, and we should utilize them,
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.