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
records election subjects
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
responsibility president joints
I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
views president judicial-review
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.
cells use research
There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.
rooms said disagreement
I've never walked out of a room and had a disagreement as to what was said.
real decision congress
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.
numbers democracy noble
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.
president looks reason
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
family strong strong-family
I do come from a strong family.
party president demand
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
party
My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
war father men
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
war should-have law
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
cancer war president
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.