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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A lot of people have shifted their views, ... People do shift, so there may be an evolution of his thinking.
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Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,
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Because of enormous public importance of the upcoming mayoral election, the Department of Justice should release all information concerning the issue related to the bugging of Mayor Street's office, so long as no potential defendant's rights are compromised and no harm will come to any pending investigation.
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Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.
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The word is, he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if,
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In the context where the Supreme Court decides, really, the cutting-edge questions of our day
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I think it's been a chaotic process, very candidly.
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a sad episode in the history of Washington D.C.
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It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.
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Judge Roberts had expressed his appreciation to have the introductions early. He said the maximum time of the children's staying power was five minutes. And that is certainly understandable,
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Finally, someone connected to the Administration knows how to keep his trap shut. If only some of that would rub off on Barbara Bush.
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It has been my experience that the hearings are a subtle minuet with nominees answering as many questions as they think they have to in order to be confirmed.
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I'm not sure that $1.6 trillion is precisely the right figure. Perhaps it is, if more of that was devoted to the lower income groups.
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Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,