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
lawyer states position
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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?
change course judges roe talk versus woman
When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.
vote
We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
contested daunting facing heavy judicial
We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
thinking judging independence
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
legacy
When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
church doctrine separation
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
protection gallery amendments
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
education believe students
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
war cancer thinking
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
matter lasts sound
As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
country thinking iraq
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
judging doe separation
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.