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
mean precedent stability
Stability means respecting precedents.
thinking political want
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
military oil iraq
We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
country strong play
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
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.
family strong strong-family
I do come from a strong family.
president looks reason
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
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.
people laughing ifs
If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
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.
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.
records election subjects
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
politician statesmen knows
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
cancer war president
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.