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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I do come from a strong family.
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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.
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Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
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If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
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I've been in a lot of elections.
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When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
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Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
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Stability means respecting precedents.
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We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.
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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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was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.
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There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.
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There is no doubt about the value of investigative reporting to the public interests in exposing corruption, malfeasance, misconduct, waste ... there are weighty considerations on law enforcement, on their point of view, and national security interests. All of those factors have to be taken into account.
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There is a little different approach in confirmation of the chief justice, ... I'm concerned about the conferences, about bringing the court together.